Diagram
Date
14 September 1669
Creator
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p178
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
Diagram of the problem John Collins wished Henry Oldenburg to pose to Renatus Franciscus Slusius: whether he had a construction 'for salving of Solid problemes, wherein the Axes either of a Parabola or Hyperbola, and the longer Axis of an Ellipses or any two of these figures may meet without the concave figure'.
Collins wrote the letter in English, which Oldenburg then translated into Latin. The Latin version of the letter is the one depicted here, in its copied form in the Letter Book. It is also copied in LBC/3/217. Collins had included a diagram in his original English note, which can be found in Cl.P/24/36/001.
Collins wrote the letter in English, which Oldenburg then translated into Latin. The Latin version of the letter is the one depicted here, in its copied form in the Letter Book. It is also copied in LBC/3/217. Collins had included a diagram in his original English note, which can be found in Cl.P/24/36/001.
Object history
The original English letter from Collins to Oldenburg is transcribed in The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, 13 vols (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Taylor and Francis, 1965-86), VI (1969), 226-31, where this is dated c. 12 September 1669. This neat letter was copied from two different sources, the original letter (now only surviving in LBO/3) and a Post Script with diagram that can now be found in Cl.P/24/36. The Latin letter Oldenburg sent to Slusius on the basis of Collins’s English letter is transcribed in the same volume, on pp. 232-36.
Related fellows
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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