Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14957

    Diagram relating to conic sections

    Date
    10 March 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol3 p365
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 177mm
    Subject
    Description
    A diagram in a letter from Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg dated 10 March 1670. It relates to Slusius's procedure for finding the foci of any conic section.

    It was copied from LBO/3/294.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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