Long time ago I received a message from you -- attached below --
related to the edition of WALLIS correspondence. Since I am
particularly interested in John Wallis's work I would appreciate
very much to know whether this project is already finished.
I am sending a copy of this email to our list for I believe your
project might interest many members of this forum.
Thanks for your response.
Cordially,
Julio GC
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A project preparing an edition of the scientific correspondence
of the English mathematician John WALLIS (1616-1703), F.R.S.,
has been started at Hamburg University. The project, headed by
Professor Christoph J. Scriba in collaboration with Dr. Philip
Beeley and Dr. Siegmund Probst, is funded by a grant from the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It is planned to provide
a complete index and to publish the letters not covered by other
major editions (e. g. Boyle, Flamsteed, Huygens, Leibniz, Newton,
Oldenburg, Correspondence of Scientific Men (ed. Rigaud)).
We would be grateful for any information on the whereabouts of
letters not contained in C. J. Scriba's "A Tentative Index of the
Correspondence of John Wallis, F.R.S.", Notes and Records of the
Royal Society of London, 22 (1967), pp. 58-93.
Please contact C. J. Scriba or Philip Beeley
Institut fuer Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften,
Mathematik und Technik
Universitaet Hamburg
Bundesstrasse 55
D-20146 Hamburg
Tel.: +49-40-4123-6172 or -6173; Fax: +49-40-4123-5260;
e-mail: scriba@math.uni-hamburg.de or beeley@math.uni-hamburg.de
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