Method of tangents to any curve
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                                12 January 1671
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Unknown, Artist
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                vol4 p237
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (page): 301mm
width (page): 178mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 178mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Diagram in a copy of a letter dated 12 January 1671, which Henry Oldenburg wrote to Renatus Franciscus Slusius to convey James Gregorie's commentary on Isaac Barrow's method of drawing tangents in Lectiones geometricae (1670). 
This is copied from LBO/4/174.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            This is copied from LBO/4/174.
                                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
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677, British) , Classical and Mathematical Scholar, Scholar
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