MONTUCLA Jean-Etienne. Histoire des recherches sur la Quadrature du Cercle; ouvrage propre à instruire des découvertes réelles faites sur ce problème célèbre, & à servir de préservatif contre de nouveaux efforts pour le résoudre; avec une...
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Addition concernant les problèmes de la duplication du cube & la trisection de l’angle.
Paris, Jombert, 1754.
12mo, mm. 170x100; contemporary binding, full leather marbled, spine adorned in gold, red edges; p. XLIII, [5], 304, [4]; VIII engraved plates folded out the text with geometric figures. Stamp of the extinct library in the title.
RARE ORIGINAL EDITION appeared anonymously.
The work is dedicated to the history of research on the ancient problem of squaring the circle, rebuilt by Archimedes to Bernoulli. Many mathematicians had believed to have solved this complex problem, but their demonstrations were wrong: Montucla is convinced, in 1754, that the square is impossible: only in 1882 the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann will provide the demonstration. Zeitlinger: "This is the history of the subject ... Montucla is an admirable historian When he is writing from His Own direct knowledge."
The author's name appears in the privilege. Zeitlinger, n. 3062.
Excellent condition. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
Paris, Jombert, 1754.
12mo, mm. 170x100; contemporary binding, full leather marbled, spine adorned in gold, red edges; p. XLIII, [5], 304, [4]; VIII engraved plates folded out the text with geometric figures. Stamp of the extinct library in the title.
RARE ORIGINAL EDITION appeared anonymously.
The work is dedicated to the history of research on the ancient problem of squaring the circle, rebuilt by Archimedes to Bernoulli. Many mathematicians had believed to have solved this complex problem, but their demonstrations were wrong: Montucla is convinced, in 1754, that the square is impossible: only in 1882 the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann will provide the demonstration. Zeitlinger: "This is the history of the subject ... Montucla is an admirable historian When he is writing from His Own direct knowledge."
The author's name appears in the privilege. Zeitlinger, n. 3062.
Excellent condition. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
