Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14974

    Diagram

    Date
    24 September 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol4 p104
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 301mm
    width (page): 175mm
    Subject
    Description
    A figure in a letter from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Franciscus Slusius dated 20 September 1670. The diagram is part of Pierre Hérigone's solution to finding the rational co-ordinates of an equilateral hyperbola, as given in his Cursus mathematicus (Paris, 1634-37).

    This figure is copied from LBO/4/076, which is copied from EL/O2/33/003.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Associated place
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