Diagrams relating to drawing tangents to a curve
Date
12 January 1671
Creator
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p167
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 311mm
width (page): 196mm
width (page): 196mm
Subject
Description
Diagrams - one copied, and another inserted (LBC/4/167a) - in a copy of a letter dated 12 January 1671 that 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 diagram drawn onto fol. 167 is copied in LBC/4/226.
The diagram drawn onto fol. 167 is copied in LBC/4/226.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Scholar
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Scholar
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