Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15330

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    Date
    ca. 15 March 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p1
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 297mm
    width (page): 189mm
    Subject
    Description
    A figure in a letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated around 15 March 1670, from John Collins, who had been editing the works on curves and conic sections by John Wallis and Isaac Barrow. Collins proposed several problems relating to these works to Renatus Franciscus Slusius via this letter.

    Copies can be found at LBO/3/307 and LBC/3/380.
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
    John Wallis (1616 - 1703, British) , Mathematician
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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