Book ID: CBB001552098

The Correspondence of John Wallis, Volume IV, 1672-April 1675 (2014)

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Beeley, Philip (Author)
Scriba, Christoph J. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 653 pp.; ill.
Language: English

The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616 -1703) is a critically acclaimed resource in the history of early modern science. Volume IV covers the period from 1672 to April 1675 and contains over eighty previously unpublished letters. It documents Wallis's role in the crucial debate over the method of tangents involving figures such as Sluse, James Gregory, Hudde, Barrow, Newton, and Christiaan Huygens. In this way it illuminates further an important part of the history of the calculus. Wallis's letters also provide valuable new insights into mathematical book production and the importance of the.

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Authors & Contributors
Scriba, Christoph J.
Beeley, Philip
Stedall, Jacqueline Anne
Guicciardini, Niccolò
Crippa, Davide
Kaplan, Abram
Concepts
Mathematics
Correspondence and corresponding
Algebra
Physics
Calculus
Controversies and disputes
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
18th century
Medieval
19th century
16th century
Places
England
Great Britain
Europe
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Oxford University
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