Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14956

    Diagrams relating to conic sections

    Date
    10 March 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol3 p364
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 179mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagrams in a letter from Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg dated 10 March 1670. This set of diagrams relate to Slusius's procedure for finding the foci of any conic section.

    The figures were copied from LBO/3/293. The original letter is at EL/S1/61/003.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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