Diagrams relating to Guldin's centrobaric rule
Date
25 September 1673
Creator
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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Manuscript page number
p309
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Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 201mm
width (page): 201mm
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Description
Diagrams in Henry Oldenburg's letter to Renatus Franciscus Slusius dated 25 September 1673 concerning the centrobaric rule of Paul Guldin (1577-1643). Guldin’s rule in Centrobaryca (1635-41) states that ‘If any plane figure revolve about an external axis in its plane, the volume of the solid so generated is equal to the product of the area of the figure and the distance travelled by the center of gravity of the figure’ (as explained in The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 10, p. 180n4).
The diagrams are copied in LBC/6/360-61.
The diagrams are copied in LBC/6/360-61.
Related fellows
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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