Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14969

    A diagram to discover the foci of conic sections

    Date
    25 July 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol4 p59
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 301mm
    width (page): 175mm
    Subject
    Description
    A diagram to discover the foci of conic sections, in Renatus Franciscus Slusius's letter dated 25 July 1670 to Henry Oldenburg.

    This is a copy of LBO/4/045.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Scholar
    Associated place
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