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Letter, from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Oxford

Reference number: EL/W1/142

Date: 02 October 1672

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Discussing his reply to Huygens' letter dated 27 September 1672 about methods for finding tangents which he had used in his work on conic sections of 1656

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EL/W1/142
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02 October 1672
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1 page
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Manuscript

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John Wallis

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John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Oxford, 02 October 1672, EL/W1/142, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w1_142/letter-from-john-wallis-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 13 December 2024

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