| Reference number | EL/W1/115 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Henry Oldenburg |
| Creator | Wallis; John (1616-1703); mathematician; cryptographer; Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford |
| Date | 15 November 1670 |
| Description | Concerning the controversy between Honore Fabri and Borelli about whether or not two separate motions can be compounded into one, without modifying the other (a stone shot horizontally and the other descending perpendicularly)
Read to the Royal Society on 24 November 1670 |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 1 side |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Place origin | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Origin coordinates | 51.75222, -1.25596 |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 283 |
| URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
| URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/1669dc0e-41c4-4bdd-bb94-2f23bab9c428 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7472 | Wallis; John (1616 - 1703); mathematician and cryptographer | 1616 - 1703 |
| NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |