Diagram
Date
20 January 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p174
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 365mm
width (page): 231mm
width (page): 231mm
Subject
Description
Diagram 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 of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 69 (March 1671).
This image is copied from RBO/4/098.
This image is copied from RBO/4/098.
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).
John Collins, ' Solution to a chorographical problem proposed by Richard Townley', Phil. Trans. vol. 6, no. 69 (March 1671), pp. 2093-96.
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