Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14765

    Diagrams relating to drawing tangents to a curve

    Date
    12 January 1671
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p166
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 311mm
    width (page): 197mm
    Subject
    Description
    In a letter dated 12 January 1671, Henry Oldenburg wrote to Renatus Franciscus Slusius to convey James Gregorie's commentary on Isaac Barrow's method of drawing tangents in Lectiones geometricae (1670). The diagrams relate to this topic.

    Copies of these diagrams can be found in LBC/4/224-25.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    James Gregorie (1638 - 1675, Scottish) , Mathematician
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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