Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Slusius
Reference number: EL/O2/100
Date: 16 December 1672
Description
Sends Slusius's construction of the Alhazen problem to Huygens; concerning the height of mercury in a tube purged of air; wishes to see Slusius's method of tangents; that Mr Collins would like to know Slusius's opinion of Hudden's appendix to 'Geometrie' of Descartes, which Oldenburg quotes, and also about Dulauren's assertions regarding cubic equations
- Reference number
- EL/O2/100
- Earliest possible date
- 16 December 1672
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Slusius, 16 December 1672, EL/O2/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o2_100/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-renatus-slusius, accessed on 02 December 2024
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Renatus Franciscus Slusius
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Henry Oldenburg
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