Method of drawing tangents
Date
10 December 1672
Creator
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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Manuscript page number
p1
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Dimensions
height (page): 183mm
width (page): 141mm
width (page): 141mm
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Description
Diagram in Isaac Newton's argument that Renatus Franciscus Slusius's method of drawing tangents was a particular case of Newton's more general method. From an extract, translated into Latin by Henry Oldenburg, of Isaac Newton's letter to John Collins dated 10 December 1672. The Latin version was included in Commercium Epistolicum (1712).
Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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