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L’HOSPITAL, Traité analytique des sections coniques, 1720
L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de).
Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu’indéterminez.
Paris, Montalant, 1720.
4to (249x188 mm), (8)-459 pages and 34 folding plates. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Binding rubbed. Title piece is missing. Arms on covers faded. All plates unbound. Binding stay open.
Second edition.
Treatise on conic sections, which he treats both by geometric and analytical methods (equations of the form ax2 bx2 cxy dx ey f = 0) and which was very successful. Finalized in 1699, it was not published until after his death at the request of Fontenelle, then secretary of the Royal Academy.
Price : 200 €
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