English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)
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Johannis Wallisii, S.S. Th.D., geometriæ professoris Saviliani in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi Operum mathematicorum pars prima.
John WallisDate: 1657- Books
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[John Wallis correspondence].
John WallisDate: 2008-- Books
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Johannis Wallis S.T.D., geometriæ professoris Saviliani, in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi Opera mathematica.
John WallisDate: 1693-99- Books
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Mechanica: sive, De motu, tractatus geometricus. Authore Johanne Wallis, ... Pars prima- tertia. ..
John WallisDate: 1670- Books
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Johannis Wallisii, S.T.D. Geometriæ Professoris Saviliani, in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi, Elenchus geometriæ Hobbianæ. Sive, Geometricorum, quæ in ipsius Elementis philosophiæ, à Thoma Hobbes Malmesburiensi proferuntur, refutatio.
John WallisDate: 1655
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John Wallis. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1825, after W. Derby after Sir G. Kneller, 1701.
Godfrey KnellerDate: 1825Reference: 9516i
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John Wallis. Line engraving by J. Basire, 1791, after G. B. Cipriani.
Giovanni Battista CiprianiDate: 1791Reference: 9513i- Books
[Hobbes stigmai ageōmetrias, agroikias, antipoliteias, amatheias] or markes of the absurd geometry, rural language, Scottish church-politicks and barbarismes of John Wallis / [Thomas Hobbes].
Thomas HobbesDate: [1657]- E-books
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The rule for finding Easter in the Book of Common-Prayer , explain'd and vindicated against the exceptions of the late learned Dr. Wallis, and the misrepresentations of Mr. Baxter, Mr. Calamy, and other dissenters. Wherein Directions are given for Finding the Ecclesiastical New and Full Moon; the Dominical Letter, &c. Together with a Table of the Lunar and Solar Cycles, Golden Number, and Dominical Letters for 532 Years: Shewing, that the Full Moon is the Fourteenth, not the Fifteenth Day Inclusive from the New Moon. And a Preface, giving an Historical Account of the said Rule, and the several Objections made against it. Together with an appendix, concerning the true time o keeping St. Matthias's day in leap-years. Shewing, That it is to be kept on the 24th, and not on the 25th of February, as some Almanacks place it. Wherein are inserted A.B. Sancroft's Order, sent to the Clergy of his Province; And Dr. Wallis's Letter to Bp. Fell concerning the same, A.D. 1684.
Watts, Robert 1683-1726.Date: 1714- Books
Squaring the circle : the war between Hobbes and Wallis / Douglas M. Jesseph.
Douglas Michael JessephDate: 1999