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LA HIRE || MAUDUIT, Les élémens des sections coniques, 1757
LA HIRE, Philippe (de) || MAUDUIT, Antoine-René.
Les élémens des sections coniques, démontrées par synthèse. Ouvrage dans lequel on a renfermé le petit traité des sections coniques de M. de La Hire.
Paris, Desaint, Saillant, 1757.
8vo (198x126 mm), (4)-xix-(1)-430-xxxxviii-(2) pages and 16 plates. binding : Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments. Corners bumped.
First edition.
First work by the mathematician Antoine-René Mauduit (1731-1815) who continued the work of La Hire on conic sections.
references: DSB [vii, 577: "La Hire summarized the progress achieved in analytic geometry during half a century and contributed some interesting ideas, among them the possible extension of space to more than three dimensions"].
Price : 300 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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