Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14753

    Diagram to discover the foci of conic sections

    Date
    25 July 1670
    Creator
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p45
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 311mm
    width (page): 197mm
    Subject
    Description
    A diagram to discover the foci of conic sections in Franciscus Renatus Slusius's letter dated 25 July 1670 to Henry Oldenburg.

    A copy of this diagram can be found at LBC/4/059.
    Related fellows
    Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Mathematician
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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          > Belgium
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