Diagram
Date
16 August 1669
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p168
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
Diagram relating to finding the angles of inclination and declination which generate the figure described by the revolution of any given hyperbola, in a letter from Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg dated 16 August 1669. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 October 1669.
This is copied from EL/S1/59/002 and is copied in LBC/3/205.
This is copied from EL/S1/59/002 and is copied in LBC/3/205.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 October 1669, ‘A letter in Latin to Mr. Oldenburg from Monsr. Slusius, dated at Leige, August 16, 1669, N.S. commending Dr. Wren’s invention and demonstration of the hyperbolical cycloid, and inlarging upon it: and taking notice of the paralogism of Mr. Hobbes in his quadrature of the circle, which piece had been shewn to Monsr. Slusius four or five years before by Monsr. de Sorbiere, and confuted by Monsr. Slusius’ (Birch, 2:397).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723, British) , Architect
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