Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14795

    Diagram regarding a cycloid

    Date
    4 March 1672
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p179
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 314mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram relating to a theorem about a cycloid as an addition to Barrow's theorem (see Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 6, no. 75 (1671) p. 2262), in a letter by Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg dated 4 March 1672.

    This diagram in the original letter is at EL/O2/79/003, and in its draft at Cl.P/24/20/001.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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