Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14769

    Method of tangents to any curve

    Date
    12 January 1671
    Creator
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p174
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 311mm
    width (page): 196mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram in a copy of a letter from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Franciscus Slusius communicating James Gregorie's explanation of Isaac Barrow's method of tangents to any curve.

    A copy of this diagram can be found in LBC/4/237.
    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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