John Wallis

"Thus in Compliance with your repeated desires, I have given you a short account of divers passages of my life, 'till I have now come to more than fourscore years of age. How well I have acquitted my s…"

"You may find this work quite new. For I see no reason why I should not proclaim it; nor do I believe that others will take it wrongly. ...it teaches all by a new method, introduced by me for the first…"

"John Davys, John Wallis, An Essay on the Art of Decyphering: In which is inserted a discourse of Dr. Wallis. Now first publish'd from his original manuscript in the publick library at Oxford"

"Upon this Occasion many Methods have been invented of secret Writing, or Writing in Cipher, a Thing heretofore scarce known to any but the Secretaries of Princes, or others of like Condition; but of l…"

"Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life" as contained in part XII of Peter Langtoft's Chronicle"

"It hath been my Lot to live in a time, wherein have been many and great Changes and Alterations. It hath been my endeavour all along, to act by moderate Principles, between the Extremities on either h…"

"The Occasion of that Assembly was this; The Parliament which then was, were ingaged in a War with the King. ...The Issue of which War, proved very different from what was said to be at first intended.…"

"I made no Scruple of diverting to any part of Useful Learning. Presuming, that Knowledge is no Burthen; and, if of any part thereof I should afterwards have no occasion to make use, it would at least …"