Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14768

    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
    p168
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 311mm
    width (page): 196mm
    Subject
    Description
    Two small diagrams pasted into 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).

    Copies of these diagrams can be found at LBC/4/228-29.
    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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