Diagram
Date
20 January 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p98
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 360mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Description
Diagrams in John Collins's solution to the problem proposed by Richard Towneley of measuring the distance of three objects from one position. This was read to the Royal Society on 20 January 1670 and printed in Philosophical Transactions vol. 6, no. 69.
Transcription
The distances of three objects in the same Plane being given as ABC, the Angles made at a fourth place in the same Plane, as at S, are observedl The Distances from the Place of Observation to the respective Objects are required.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 20 January 1670, ‘Mr. Collins’s solution of the problem for measuring the distances of three objects from one station was read, approved of, as to its truth (though its practicableness at sea was doubted) and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 2:416).
Printed in John Collins, 'Solution to a chorographical problem proposed by Richard Townley', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 69 (March 1671), pp. 2093-96.
Printed in John Collins, 'Solution to a chorographical problem proposed by Richard Townley', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 69 (March 1671), pp. 2093-96.
Related fellows
John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
Associated place