Diagram
Date
10 December 1672
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 183mm
width (page): 145mm
width (page): 145mm
Subject
Description
Diagram from Isaac Newton's letter to John Collins dated 10 December 1672, in which he showed that Renatus Franciscus Slusius's method of drawing tangents is a particular case of his more general method. Part of this letter was translated into Latin and included in Commercium Epistolicum (1712).
Related fellows
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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