Letter, from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg , dated at Oxford
Reference number: EL/W1/96
Date: 16 October 1669
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Sends a summary of the letter sent to Renatus Slusius concerning Christopher Wren's hyperbolic cylindroid (made upon a lathe with a straight-edged steel tool), and then how this method could make a hyperbola using an involved calculation; Wallis quotes from his treatise 'De cycloide' about how this can be done
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- EL/W1/96
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- 16 October 1669
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- 2 pages
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John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Henry Oldenburg , dated at Oxford, 16 October 1669, EL/W1/96, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w1_96/letter-from-john-wallis-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 17 May 2025
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