Reference number | EL/S1/54 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, from Renatus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg |
Creator | Sluse; Rene Francois de (1622-1685); Walloon mathematician; clergyman |
Date | 7 May 1668 |
Description | Concerns publishing Slusius's work 'Mesolobe'; wishes for an account of the comet witnessed in Italy and about Boyle's experiments; wishes for an account of Brouncker's measure of the hyperbola |
Language | Latin |
Extent | 2p |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | Transcribed and translated in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 4, p 341 |
URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/e3c48de9-7fa1-44d3-823f-2b235bed4cef |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |
NA5659 | Slusius; Renatus Franciscus (1622 - 1685); mathematician and clergyman | 1622 - 1685 |