Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Renatus Slusius

Reference number: EL/O2/100

Date: 16 December 1672

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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
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Henry Oldenburg

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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
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters O2
1669-1736 Reference number: EL/O2

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Renatus Franciscus Slusius
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Henry Oldenburg
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