Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14947

    Diagram

    Date
    16 July 1669
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol3 p172
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 180mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram of John Collins's method for determining the length of a circular arc (different from the method in Gregorie's Exercitationes geometrica), included in Henry Oldenburg's letter to Renatus Francis Slusius dated 16 July 1669.

    This is a copy of LBO/3/140. The original figure is at EL/O2/3/003.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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