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Letter

21 Jun 1655: Wallis, John (Dr), 1616-1703 (Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) to Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (The Hague, South Holland, (United Provinces) Netherlands)

Catalogue
Wallis catalogue
About Wallis catalogue
Dates
21 June 1655

Original Calendar: Julian (start of year: 25 Mar).

(As Marked: 21 Junii 1655.st.vet. 1 Julii 1655.st. N.)

People

Authors

Wallis, John (Dr), 1616-1703
Mathematician and cryptographer; Savilian Professor of Geometry, University of Oxford; F.R.S.

Recipients

Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695
Dutch physicist, mathematician, and astonomer

Places

Origin

As marked: Scribebam Oxoniae

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Destination

As marked: Clarissimo Doctissimoque Viro D. Christiano Hugenio, Constantini Filio, tradantur Hagae-Comitis. | Leave it at the forraigne Post-house in London, to be sent to the Haghe in Holland.

The Hague, South Holland, (United Provinces) Netherlands

Content
Repositories & Versions

Versions (originals, copies, etc)

  • Letter
  • Printed copy
    • Printed edition details: Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703). Volume I (1641-1659). Eds. Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba. Oxford: OUP, 2003. 145-150.
Comments

Comments

  • Reply to: Huygens-Wallis [3]/13.VI.1655. | Wallis pursues the discussion on quadratures further and responds to Huygens's astronomical conundrum by sending one of his own, which, as he later claimed, contained core discoveries by Neale and Wren.


Edit Record Source of data: Philip Beeley, with editorial assistance from Kim McLean-Fiander, October 2011

  Record ID 600064, last changed by Iva Lelkova on 09/11/2012.

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