Diagram
Date
c. 12 September 1669
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol3 p217
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 300mm
width (page): 181mm
width (page): 181mm
Subject
Description
Diagram of the problem Collins wished Oldenburg to pose to Renatus Franciscus Slusius: whether he had a construction 'for salving of Solid problemes, wherein the Axes either of a Parabola or Hyperbola, and the longer Axis of an Ellipses or any two of these figures may meet without the concave figure'.
Oldenburg's letter to Slusius, which includes the diagram, is dated 14 September 1669.
This is a copy of LBO/3/178. The original diagram is in Cl.P/24/36/001.
Oldenburg's letter to Slusius, which includes the diagram, is dated 14 September 1669.
This is a copy of LBO/3/178. The original diagram is in Cl.P/24/36/001.
Object history
The original English letter from Collins to Oldenburg is transcribed in The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, ed. by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, 13 vols (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Taylor and Francis, 1965-86), VI (1969), 226-31, where this is dated c. 12 September 1669. This neat letter was copied from two different sources, the original letter (now only surviving in LBO/3) and a Post Script with diagram that can now be found in Cl.P/24/36. The Latin letter Oldenburg sent to Slusius on the basis of Collins’s English letter is transcribed in the same volume, on pp. 232-36.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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