John Wallis Bibliography

Primary Editions

The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), eds. Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba, 2 vols to date of 8 vols planned (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003–).

Wallis, John, Opera mathematica, 3 vols, Oxford 1693–1699; repr. with foreword by Christoph J. Scriba (Hildesheim and New York: Georg Olms, 1972).

— , The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals, tr. and intr. Jacqueline A. Stedall (New York, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2004).

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Secondary Works

Beeley, Philip, ‘Infinity, Infinitesimals, and the Reform of Cavalieri: John Wallis and his Critics’, in Ursula Goldenbaum and Douglas M. Jesseph, eds, Infinitesimal Difference: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2008), pp. 31–52.

— , and Scriba, Christoph J. , ‘Disputed Glory. John Wallis and Some Questions of Precedence in Seventeenth-Century Mathematics’, in Hartmut Hecht, Regina Mikosch, et al., eds, Kosmos und Zahl. Beiträge zur Mathematik- und Astronomiegeschichte, zu Alexander von Humboldt und Leibniz (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008), pp. 275–99.

— , and Scriba, Christoph J. , ‘Controversy and Modernity. John Wallis and the Seventeenth-Century Debate on the Nature of the Angle of Contact’, Acta Historica Leopoldina, 54 (2008), pp. 431–50.

— , ‘Eine Geschichte zweier Städte. Wallis, Wilkins und der Streit um die wahren Ursprünge der Royal Society’, Acta Historica Leopoldina, 49 (2008), pp. 135–62.

— , ‘Un de mes amis. On Leibniz’s Relation to the English Mathematician and Theologian John Wallis’, in Pauline Phemister and Stuart Brown, eds, Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 63–81.

— , and Scriba, Christoph J. , ‘Wallis, Leibniz und der Fall von Harriot und Descartes. Zur Geschichte eines vermeintlichen Plagiats im 17. Jahrhundert’, Acta Historica Leopoldina, 45 (2005), pp. 115–29.

— , and Probst, Siegmund, ‘John Wallis (1616-1703): Mathematician and Divine’, in L. Bergmans and Teun Koetsier, eds, Mathematics and the Divine (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005), pp. 441–57.

Freudenthal, Gideon, ‘A Rational Controversy over Compounding Forces’, in Peter Machamer, Marcello Pera and Aristides Baltas, eds, Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 125–42.

Jesseph, Douglas M., Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Malet, Antoni, ‘Barrow, Wallis, and the Remaking of Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles’, Centaurus, 39 (1997), pp. 67–92.

Mancosu, Paolo, Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Maierù, Luigi, John Wallis. Una vita per un progetto (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2007).

Probst, Siegmund, ‘Infinity and Creation: The Origin of the Controversy between Thomas Hobbes and the Savilian Professors Seth Ward and John Wallis’, British Journal of the History of Science, 26 (1993), pp. 271–79.

— , Die mathematische Kontroverse zwischen Thomas Hobbes und John Wallis (Hanover: Private Imprint, 1997/University of Regensburg: PhD thesis, 1994).

Prytz, Johan, A Study of the Angle of Contact with a Special Focus on John Wallis’ Conception of Quantities and Angles (University of Uppsala: PhD thesis, 1994).

Pycior, Helena, ‘Mathematics and Philosophy: Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow, and Berkeley’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 48 (1987), pp. 265–86.

Rampelt, Jason, ‘The Last Word: John Wallis on the Origin of the Royal Society’, History of Science, 46 (2008), pp. 177–201.

— , Distinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions: The Academic Life of John Wallis (1616–1703) (University of Cambridge: PhD thesis, 2005).

Scott, Joseph Frederick, The Mathematical Work of John Wallis, D.D., F.R.S. (1616–1703) (London, 1938; repr. New York: Chelsea, 1981).

Scriba, Christoph. J., ‘The Autobiography of John Wallis, F.R.S.’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 25 (1970), pp. 17–46.

— , Studien zur Mathematik des John Wallis (1616–1703) (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1966).

Stedall, Jacqueline A., A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).

— , ‘Of our own nation: John Wallis’s Account of Mathematical Learning in Medieval England’, Historia Mathematica, 28 (2001), pp. 73–122.

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