Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15593

    Cubic function

    Date
    15 October 1674
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 193mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram of a cubic function, from a letter by Michael Dary to Robert Hooke dated 15 October 1674.

    Michael Dary, who worked under John Collins at the Farthing Office, was an amateur mathematician who had also published Miscellanie... A brief collection of mathematical theorems (London, 1669). He also corresponded with Isaac Newton on cubic equations.
    Related fellows
    Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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