4to (275x215 mm), (4)-xxxii-(2)-489 pages and 15 plates. binding : Contemporary quarter sheep, gilt flat spine. Spine chipped.
First edition. Book in which Lazare Carnot exposes three theorems which will retain his name: - Carnot's Japanese Theorem relating to an algebraic equality of distances in a construction using the inscribed circle and the circle circumscribed to a triangle - Carnot's Theorem which gives a condition necessary and sufficient for three straight lines perpendicular to the (extended) sides of a triangle to be concurrent. This theorem can be considered as a generalization of the Pythagorean theorem. - Carnot's theorem which relates to a condition so that points located on the sides of a triangle are located on the same conic.
Copy printed on untrimmed vellum paper with full margins.