Reference number | RBO/4/2 |
Alternative reference number | RBO.4.5 |
Level | Item |
Title | Mr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia - the Demonstration Promised at the end of the foregoing discourse |
Date | 5 August 1668 |
Description | Wallis's own method of finding the sum of a logarithm (demonstration promised at end of RBO/4/1) Written in a letter to the Lord Brouncker and read before the Society in 1668 Figure 1 - ink drawing, height 700mm x 500 mm Figure 2 - ink drawing, height 450 mm x 800mm |
Language | Latin |
Extent | 4 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 3, no 38, p 756 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA3503 | Brouncker; William (c1620 - 1684); 2nd Viscount Brouncker; mathematician | c1620 - 1684 |