[MANUSCRIPT]. SAUVEUR, Joseph. Nouveaux Elemens de Géometrie demontrés d’une manière nouvelle et familière, par Sauveur. Mss., Francia, fine XVII – inizio XVIII secolo.
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Description
4° small mm. 210 x 170, pp. 158, 130, [2], with
35 drawings of geometrical illustrations. Contemporary full vellum binding, spine with 4 ribs golden titles and ornaments.
Manuscript done with clear and elegant script in the early years of the eighteenth century [the paper is still seventeenth century], interspersed with tables of geometric figures made with clarity and precision by expert hand.
It is divided into two parts, the first devoted to Elemens de geometries, the second to Pratique de la geometries. It is probably a transcription of a lecture series, perhaps preparatory to print a manual on the topic.
Non abbiamo notizie certe circa l’autore, ma dovrebbe trattarsi di Joseph Sauveur [1653-1716], "lange Zeit Privatlehrer d. Mathematik... darauf 1686 Prof. d. Mathematik am Collége Royale... u. 1703 Examinator d. Ingenieure" [Poggendorff, II/759-60]. L’autore fu anche un grande esperto di acustica musicale. Quérard, VIII/487, cita in effetti un suo testo [postumo] di Géometrie elémentaire et pratique, avec de notes, par G. Leblond [1753].
Splendid specimen.
35 drawings of geometrical illustrations. Contemporary full vellum binding, spine with 4 ribs golden titles and ornaments.
Manuscript done with clear and elegant script in the early years of the eighteenth century [the paper is still seventeenth century], interspersed with tables of geometric figures made with clarity and precision by expert hand.
It is divided into two parts, the first devoted to Elemens de geometries, the second to Pratique de la geometries. It is probably a transcription of a lecture series, perhaps preparatory to print a manual on the topic.
Non abbiamo notizie certe circa l’autore, ma dovrebbe trattarsi di Joseph Sauveur [1653-1716], "lange Zeit Privatlehrer d. Mathematik... darauf 1686 Prof. d. Mathematik am Collége Royale... u. 1703 Examinator d. Ingenieure" [Poggendorff, II/759-60]. L’autore fu anche un grande esperto di acustica musicale. Quérard, VIII/487, cita in effetti un suo testo [postumo] di Géometrie elémentaire et pratique, avec de notes, par G. Leblond [1753].
Splendid specimen.
