Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15859

    Cycloid

    Date
    4 March 1672
    Creator
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 311mm
    width (page): 199mm
    Subject
    Description
    Diagram in a letter from Henry Oldenburg dated 4 March 1672 at London to Renatus Franciscus Slusius. The diagram relates to Isaac Barrow's discussion of cycloids. John Collins drafted the letter (Cl.P/24/20/001).

    There is a copy of this diagram at LBO/5/179.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
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