Diagram about drawing tangents
Date
17 January 1673
Creator
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p14
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Description
Diagram in Renatus Slusius's explanation of his method of drawing tangents to any curves in a letter to Henry Oldenburg. The letter was read at the meeting on 29 January 1673, and subsequently printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 7, no. 90, pp. 5143-47.
This is a copy of the diagram in EL/S1/75/003. It is copied in LBC/6/015.
This is a copy of the diagram in EL/S1/75/003. It is copied in LBC/6/015.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 29 January 1673, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read the following letters […] of Mons. Slusius, dated Liege, 17th January 1672/3, N.S. containing his short and easy method of drawing tangents to all geometric curves, without the labour of calculation’ (Birch 3:74).
Printed in R. F. Slusius, 'Concerning his short and easy method of drawing tangents to all geometrical curves', Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 90 (January 1673), pp. 5143-47.
Printed in R. F. Slusius, 'Concerning his short and easy method of drawing tangents to all geometrical curves', Phil. Trans. vol. 7, no. 90 (January 1673), pp. 5143-47.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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