Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14958

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    Date
    ca. 15 March 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol3 p380
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 179mm
    Subject
    Description
    A figure in a letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated around 15 March 1670, from John Collins, who had been editing the works on curves and conic sections by John Wallis and Isaac Barrow. Collins proposed several problems relating to them to Renatus Franciscus Slusius.

    This figure was copied from LBO/3/307. The figure in the original letter can be found in Cl.P/24/17/001.
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1936, American) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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