Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15907

    Diagram relating to Barrow’s Lectiones opticae

    Date
    25 July 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p3
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 307mm
    width (page): 202mm
    Subject
    Description
    A diagram relating to Renatus Franciscus Slusius’s proposed solutions to problems discussed in Barrow’s Lectiones opticae (1669, p. 52), in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 25 July 1670. Slusius asked his demonstration to be sent on to John Collins, who in turn sent it to Barrow, who sent it on to Isaac Newton.

    There are copies of this diagram at LBO/4/044 and LBC/4/058.
    Related fellows
    Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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