Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14987

    Method of tangents to any curve

    Date
    12 January 1671
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol4 p237
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 301mm
    width (page): 178mm
    Subject
    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.
    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
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