Books in the The Correspondence of John Wallis 1616-1703 series

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. This volume provides an insight into the life of Wallis through his correspondences with intellectual and political figures in the 17th century.

Containing many previously unpublished letters, this third volume of a six volume collection of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), documents an important period in the history of the Royal Society, University of Oxford, and the intellectual culture on which the growth of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe was based.

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 Containing over eighty previously unpublished letters, the book takes the reader through key scientific debates of the early 1670s on topics such as the method of tangents and the theory of tides.

This is the first of a six volume edition of the correspondence of John Wallis, who was a central figure in the scientific revolution in 17th century England. The letters contained in this volume, which covers the mid-century, give unique insight into the scientific, cultural, and political developments of the time, against the background of the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth.