Author: John Wallis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198569473
Category: History
Page: 630
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Vol. 1: This is the first in a six volume compendium on the correspondences of John Wallis (1616-1703). Wallis was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 until his death, and was a founding member of the Royal Society and a central figure in the scientific and intellectual history of England.