Diagram relating to centrobaric rule
Date
25 September 1673
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol6 p360
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 178mm
width (page): 178mm
Subject
Description
Diagram in Henry Oldenburg's letter to Renatus Franciscus Slusius dated 25 September 1673 concerning the centrobaric rule of Paul Guldin (1577-1643). Guldin’s rule in Centrobaryca (1635-41) states that ‘If any plane figure revolve about an external axis in its plane, the volume of the solid so generated is equal to the product of the area of the figure and the distance travelled by the center of gravity of the figure’ (as explained in The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, vol. 10, p. 180n4).
This figure was copied from LBO/6/309.
This figure was copied from LBO/6/309.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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