Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14717

    Diagram

    Date
    16 July 1669
    Creator
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p140
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 308mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram of John Collins's method for determining the length of a circular arc (different from the method in Gregorie's Exercitationes geometrica), which was included in Henry Oldenburg's letter to Renatus Francis Slusius dated 16 July 1669.

    This is a copy of the original letter at EL/O2/3/003. It is copied in LBC/3/172. There is another version at Cl.P/22i/3/001.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
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