Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703) - Beeley, Philip; Scriba, Christoph J
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The book is the latest volume of a critically acclaimed edition of the complete correspondence of the Oxford mathematician John Wallis. Containing over eighty previously unpublished letters, the book takes the reader through key scientific debates of the early 1670s on topics such as the method of tangents and the theory of tides.

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The book is the latest volume of a critically acclaimed edition of the complete correspondence of the Oxford mathematician John Wallis. Containing over eighty previously unpublished letters, the book takes the reader through key scientific debates of the early 1670s on topics such as the method of tangents and the theory of tides.
Autorenporträt
Philip Beeley is Research Fellow in the Faculty of History and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has formerly held teaching and research posts at the Technical University Berlin, and at the universities of Hamburg and Münster, where he was associate editor of the Academy Edition of Leibniz's philosophical writings. ; Christoph J. Scriba was Emeritus Professor at the University of Hamburg. After teaching for some years at universities in the USA and Canada, and holding a research fellowship in Oxford, he became professor for the history of science at the Technical University Berlin (1969-75) and University of Hamburg (1975-95). He died in 2013.