Reference number | EL/W2/22 |
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 | 7 April 1674 |
Description | Concerns publishing papers about the theory of tides; discussing Robert Hooke's observations of the annual parallax of the earth's orb; concerning the Rosenstein brothers, and the case of one of them hanging himself |
Language | English |
Extent | 2 sides |
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 10, p 564 |
URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/f231123a-69f6-4690-8a7a-55acc6793704 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |
NA7472 | Wallis; John (1616 - 1703); mathematician and cryptographer | 1616 - 1703 |