Reference number | EL/W1/85 |
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 April 1669 |
Description | States that he has not seen Childrey's 'Britannia Baconica' but to pass on his theory that tides will be high at the moon's apogee and perigee (moon's orbit is furthest from the earth or nearest the earth); concerning the appointment of an 'anatomical operator' |
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 5, p 493 |
URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/e9b94b9e-5b6f-4906-a81d-bc5650ef0a3b |
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 |