A geometrical problem
Date
20 August 1670
Creator
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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Manuscript page number
p49
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Dimensions
height (page): 312mm
width (page): 197mm
width (page): 197mm
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Description
Diagrams illustrating a problem and solution proposed by Renatus Franciscus Slusius: in the semicricle AGB, whose centre is C, to inflect a straight line GF from the given point G so that the two perpendiculars, FH on AB, and CE on FG, have a given ratio to each other (as translated in Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 7, p. 118).
These diagrams are copied in LBC/4/064-65. The diagrams in the original letter are at EL/S1/65/002.
These diagrams are copied in LBC/4/064-65. The diagrams in the original letter are at EL/S1/65/002.
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