Letter, from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Oxford
Reference number: EL/W1/115
Date: 15 November 1670
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Concerning the controversy between Honore Fabri and Borelli about whether or not two separate motions can be compounded into one, without modifying the other (a stone shot horizontally and the other descending perpendicularly)
Read to the Royal Society on 24 November 1670
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- EL/W1/115
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- 15 November 1670
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John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Oxford, 15 November 1670, EL/W1/115, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w1_115/letter-from-john-wallis-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 16 September 2024
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Henry Oldenburg
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