Method of drawing tangents
Date
10 December 1672
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Manuscript page number
p7
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Dimensions
height (page): 321mm
width (page): 192mm
width (page): 192mm
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Description
Diagram from Isaac Newton's letter to John Collins dated 10 December 1672, in which Newton 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
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
John Collins (1625 - 1683, British) , Mathematician, Mathematician
Renatus Franciscus Slusius (1622 - 1685, Belgian) , Mathematician
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