Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15332

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    Date
    ca. 15 March 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 297mm
    width (page): 189mm
    Subject
    Description
    John Collins, who had been editing the works on curves and conic sections by John Wallis and Isaac Barrow, proposed several problems relating to them to Renatus Franciscus Slusius in this letter to Henry Oldenburg, dated around 15 March 1670.

    Copies of these images can be found in LBO/3/309-10 and LBC/3/383.
    Related fellows
    John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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