Diagrams
Date
16 August 1669
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 310mm
width (page): 203mm
width (page): 203mm
Subject
Description
Diagram concerning Christopher Wren's invention of a hyperbolical cylindroid for grinding hyperbolical glasses in a letter from Renatus Franciscus Slusius to Henry Oldenberg dated 16 August 1669. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 October 1669.
Copies of the diagrams can be found at LBO/3/168-169 and LBC/3/205-206.
Copies of the diagrams can be found at LBO/3/168-169 and LBC/3/205-206.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 October 1669, ‘A letter in Latin to Mr. Oldenburg from Monsr. Slusius, dated at Leige, August 16, 1669, N.S. commending Dr. Wren’s invention and demonstration of the hyperbolical cycloid, and inlarging upon it: and taking notice of the paralogism of Mr. Hobbes in his quadrature of the circle, which piece had been shewn to Monsr. Slusius four or five years before by Monsr. de Sorbiere, and confuted by Monsr. Slusius’ (Birch, 2:397).
Related fellows
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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