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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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11 letters from John Wallis; 0 letters from Richard Waller

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Concerns delivery of letters; sends a letter for Molyneux making recommendations in order to find the parallax of the fixed stars in relation to the earth Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

17 June 1693 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/44
1694

Covering note enclosing a letter for Vivianus

20 February 1694 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/45

Discussing Townley's and Flamsteed's barometric observations for Lancashire and London respectively, which he had read in 'Philosophical Transactions' Read to the Royal Society on 23 May 1694

26 April 1694 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/46

Encloses a paper with details of an experiment about heating water by a fire over it Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1694

06 December 1694 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/47
1695

Stating that Isaac Newton has finished his work on light, refraction and colours and that it is in English; believes that Leibnitz' 'Calculus Differentialis' should be published and that Wallis should have done this in his algebra Read to the Royal Society on 8 May 1695

30 April 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/49

Encloses two letters; concerning rumours about Newton and that he can demonstrate the 'linea quadratrix' to be a parabola Read to the Royal Society on 19 June 1695

31 May 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/50

Enquiries about delivery of letters and about whether Hevelius's last volume containing his catalogue of stars was being sent to England

25 June 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/51

Demonstrating that a cycloid can be geometrically squared

22 August 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/52

Concerning the delivery of a book and suggesting that a paper by him (not specified) within the book might be published; wishes the merchants at Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) to send copies of Hevelius's last volume Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

27 August 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/53

Account of a horse who staked itself jumping over a hedge, and recovered Read to the Royal Society on 8 January 1695

01 January 1695 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/59
1696

Encloses a letter for Vivianus but regrets that he cannot find the other one which he desires; suggesting that the case of a horse that staked itself through the stomach, and recovered, could be printed in 'Philosophical Transactions' (see EL/W2/59 for further details of this case) Note reads: 'Not to be ent'd [in the Letter Book]'

19 February 1696 Sender: John Wallis Reference number: EL/W2/58