English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)

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John Wallis. Line engraving by D. Loggan, 1678, after himself.

John Wallis. Line engraving by M. Burghers, 1699, after W. Sonmans, 1698.

John Wallis. Line engraving by M. Burghers, 1699, after D. Loggan, 1678.

John Wallis. Stipple engraving by J. Hopwood after G. B. Cipriani.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

John Wallis. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1825, after Derby after Sir G. Kneller, 1701.

John Wallis. Line engraving by J. Basire, 1791, after G. B. Cipriani.

John Wallis. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1825, after W. Derby after Sir G. Kneller, 1701.

John Wallis. Line engraving by G. B. Cipriani.

[Hobbes stigmai ageōmetrias, agroikias, antipoliteias, amatheias] or markes of the absurd geometry, rural language, Scottish church-politicks and barbarismes of John Wallis / [Thomas Hobbes].

Squaring the circle : the war between Hobbes and Wallis / Douglas M. Jesseph.

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.

Johannis Wallisii S.T.D. in celeberrima academia Oxoniensi geometriæ professoris Saviliani exercitationes tres.

A defence of the Royal Society, and the philosophical transactions, particularly those of July, 1670 : in answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder / by John Wallis ... ; in a letter to the Right Honourable, William Lord Viscount Brouncker.

Aristarchou Samiou Peri megethōn kai apostēmatōn hēliou kai selēnēs biblion : Aristarchi Samii De magnitudinibus & distantiis solis & lunae liber. Pappou Alexandreōs tou tēs synagōgēs bibliou 2 apospasma = Pappi Alexandrini secundi libri mathematicae collectionis fragmentum, hactenus desideratum / e codis MS. edidit, Latinum fecit, notisque illustravit Johannes Wallis.

The doctrine of permutations and combinations, being an essential and fundamental part of the doctrine of chances; as it is delivered by Mr. James Bernoulli, in his excellent treatise on the doctrine of chances, intitled, Ars conjectandi, and by the celebrated Dr. John Wallis, of Oxford, in a tract intitled from the subject, and published at the end of his Treatise on algebra: in the former of which tracts is contained, a demonstration of Sir Isaac Newton's famous binomial theorem, in the cases of integral powers, and of the reciprocals of integral powers. Together with some other useful mathematical tracts / [by various authors] Published by Francis Maseres, esq.

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John Wallis

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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.

Johannis Wallisii S.T.D. in celeberrima academia Oxoniensi geometriæ professoris Saviliani exercitationes tres.

A defence of the Royal Society, and the philosophical transactions, particularly those of July, 1670 : in answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder / by John Wallis ... ; in a letter to the Right Honourable, William Lord Viscount Brouncker.

John Wallis

Images from the collections

Images featuring John Wallis

Works from the collections

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.

Johannis Wallisii S.T.D. in celeberrima academia Oxoniensi geometriæ professoris Saviliani exercitationes tres.

A defence of the Royal Society, and the philosophical transactions, particularly those of July, 1670 : in answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder / by John Wallis ... ; in a letter to the Right Honourable, William Lord Viscount Brouncker.

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