Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14771

    Diagram

    Date
    9 March 1671
    Creator
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p230
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 311mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram in Renatus Francisus Slusius's letter, dated 9 March 1671 to Henry Oldenburg, describing methods to define the conditions defining the occurrence of the various roots of an equation.

    The diagram in the original letter is at EL/S1/67/002. There is another copy at LBC/4/310.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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