Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14766

    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
    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.
    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
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