Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14727

    Diagrams relating to conic sections

    Date
    10 March 1670
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p293
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 309mm
    width (page): 200mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagrams in a letter from Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg dated 10 March 1670. This set of diagrams relate to Slusius's procedure for finding the foci of any conic section.

    These are copied in LBC/3/364. The original letter is at EL/S1/61/003.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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