2004 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
To the most Distinguished and Worthy gentleman and most Skilled Mathematician, Dr William Oughtred Rector of the church of Aldbury in the county of Surrey
verfasst von : John Wallis
Erschienen in: The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
Verlag: Springer New York
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Here for you at last (most distinguished gentleman) is now the whole of that work of which I gave hope in that proposition on circle measurement that I gave you in its stead in print last Easter (see Figure 1). For since, by custom, when one puts something out in public, it ought to be dedicated to someone, I thought to seek not only a great gentleman but a great mathematician to whom I might offer it. And therefore I saw that to none other greater than you can that easily be done, who is among mathematicians most deserving, and also by whose writings I readily confess that I have profited: who indeed in your Clavis mathematicae, though not a large work, have there taught both briefly and clearly, what we seek in vain in the large volumes of others.1