Reference number | EL/S1/82 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, from Renatus Slusius to Henry Oldenburg |
Creator | Sluse; Rene Francois de (1622-1685); Walloon mathematician; clergyman |
Date | 23 November 1673 |
Description | Demonstrates the centrobaric rule concerning the surface only (not solids which was demonstrated by Cavalieri); applies the same rule to parallelograms; concerning the task of constructing solid mathematical problems by reduction of equations; concerning the 'Magdeburg experiments' Mathematical figures in text |
Language | Latin |
Extent | 4p |
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 10, p 352 |
URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/4f9cb28e-ea68-42a3-966c-9463aa6f7153 |
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 |