Curves
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
A paper of my own about the descent in a Cycloid printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1697, cFebruary 1697
A late draft of an elementary development of Christiaan Huygens' work on the cycloid, that finally appeared anonymously in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for February 1697 (nos 225, 424).
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Apud Doctorem Ruyschium Amsterodami, 24 May 1693
Curva foliata, c1693
Diagram and mathematical description of a foliate curve. A modern hand has pencilled in "7 a Schooten", referring to geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660).
Excerpta de Codico M.S. Henratii communicata a [illegible], 27 May 1693
Extract of a volume (only partially cited) found by David Gregory in Amsterdam. He captions this "F: a. Schoten', suggesting that the work transcribed is that of geometer Frans van Schooten (1615-1660). The work concerns curves and quadratures, and is laced with comparisons to the work of Jan Hudde.
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Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693
Methodus Tangentium demonstrata ..., not later than 1691
Exposition, by Leiden mathematician Burchard de Volder (possibly in his hand), of René-François de Sluse's method of tangents.
Quo ad D.G. spectant in Pitcarnii Probl. de inventoribus, after August 1688
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Tractata cum Hugenio - Hage Com. Maio 1693 (from index), 16 May 1693-18 May 1693
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Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693, 27 May 1693
Minute account of a day-long meeting with Jan Hudde in Amsterdam, covering things algebraic. Allusions to Gerardus Mercator's vindication about hyperbolics, and to foliate curves in general.