ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES || ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne de || PICARD, Jean. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Depuis 1666 jusqu'à 1699. Tome VI. 1730.
ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES || ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne de || PICARD, Jean.
Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Depuis 1666 jusqu'à 1699. Tome VI.
Paris, Compagnie des Libraires, 1730.
4to (256x188), (8)-712 pages and 1 folding plate. binding : Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece, red edges. Upper margin cut on 1 cm. Caps and corner worn, joints split.
This volume contains articles from Roberval :
- Observations sur la composition des mouvemens & sur le moyen de trouver les touchantes des lignes courbes.
- Traité des indivisibles.
- De Trochoide ejusque spatio.
references: OHR [2327_1], DSB [(Roberval) XI, p. 487 :"Roberval's tendency to keep his own discoveries secret has been attributed to his desire to profit from them in order to retain Ramus chair. But this habit also resulted in his tardy and frequent claims to priority. (...) Roberval was one of the leading proponents of the geometry of infinitesimals, which he claimed to have taken direcly from Archimedes, without having known the work of Cavalieri. (...). The numerous results that he obtain in this area are collected (...) under the title ' Traité des indivisibles '. One of the first important finding was, in modern terms, the definite integration of the rational power. (...).
On account of his method of the "composition of movements" Roberval may be called the founder of kinematic geometry"]
(...).
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