Reference number | EL/W1/5 |
Level | Item |
Title | John Wallis, dated at Oxford, to Johannes Hevelius |
Creator | Wallis; John (1616-1703); mathematician; cryptographer; Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford |
Date | 5 April 1664 |
Description | Concerns the translation of Uleg-Beg's catalogue of stars from Persian into Latin; concerning the star in the constellation Cetus; details about the early Royal Society |
Language | Latin |
Extent | 4 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
Origin coordinates | 51.75222, -1.25596 |
Access status | Open |
Related material | 'Ulugh Beg's catalogue of stars ... ', Carnegie Institution of Washington Publications no 250 (Washington DC: 1917) can be consulted in the Royal Society Library. Transcription and translation in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 2, p 166 |
URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/470adfde-e502-4875-8bac-d44367939857 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA7472 | Wallis; John (1616 - 1703); mathematician and cryptographer | 1616 - 1703 |
NA8253 | Hevelius; Johannes (1611 - 1687); astronomer | 1611 - 1687 |