Diagram of optical considerations
Date
20 August 1670
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol4 p65
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 301mm
width (page): 175mm
width (page): 175mm
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Description
Diagram for the solution to the problem proposed by Renatus Franciscus Slusius: in the semicricle AGB, whose centre is C, to inflect a straight line GF from the given point G so that the two perpendiculars, FH on AB, and CE on FG, have a given ratio to each other (as translated in Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 7, p. 118).
This diagram is copied from LBO/4/049. The diagram in the original letter is at EL/S1/65/002.
This diagram is copied from LBO/4/049. The diagram in the original letter is at EL/S1/65/002.
Related fellows
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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