Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14730

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    Date
    ca. 15 March 1670
    Creator
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p308
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 308mm
    width (page): 201mm
    Subject
    Description
    A figure in a letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated around 15 March 1670, from John Collins, who had been editing the works on curves and conic sections by John Wallis and Isaac Barrow. Collins proposed several problems relating to these works to Renatus Franciscus Slusius.

    This figure is copied in LBC/3/382. The figure in the original letter can be found in Cl.P/24/17/002.
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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