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Letter, from John Wallis to Richard Waller, dated at Oxford

Reference number: EL/W2/49

Date: 30 April 1695

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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

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EL/W2/49
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30 April 1695
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1 page
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John Wallis

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John Wallis, Letter, from John Wallis to Richard Waller, dated at Oxford, 30 April 1695, EL/W2/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w2_49/letter-from-john-wallis-to-richard-waller-dated-at-oxford, accessed on 13 October 2024

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    Dates: 1613-1740

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