Diagram relating to conic sections
Date
10 March 1670
Creator
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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Manuscript page number
p294
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 309mm
width (page): 200mm
width (page): 200mm
Subject
Description
A diagram in a letter from Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg dated 10 March 1670. It relates to Slusius's procedure for finding the foci of any conic section.
A copy of this diagram can be found in LBC/3/365.
A copy of this diagram can be found in LBC/3/365.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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