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| Other authors / contributors: | Beeley, Philip, editor.
Scriba, Christoph J., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9780191030697
0191030694
9780198569480
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 31, 2014).
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| Summary: | The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616 -1703) is a critically acclaimed resource in the history of early modern science. Volume IV covers the period from 1672 to April 1675 and contains over eighty previously unpublished letters. It documents Wallis's role in the crucial debate over the method of tangents involving figures such as Sluse, James Gregory, Hudde, Barrow, Newton, and Christiaan Huygens. In this way it illuminates further an important part of the history of the calculus. Wallis's letters also provide valuable new insights into mathematical book production and the importance of the.
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| Other form: | Print version: Beeley, Philip. Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703) : Volume IV (1672-April 1675). Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2014 9780198569480
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