Rivard, Dominique François:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

LA GNOMONIQUE, OU L'ART DE FAIRE DES CADRANS. Second edition, revised, after the first of 1742, of this important French work on sun dials. Rivard (1697-1778) was an important French mathematician who was influential in the introduction of the teaching of mathematics in the University of Paris. His other works include the ELEMENTS DE MATHEMATIQUES (1740) and TRAITE DE LA SPHERE (1741), among others on geometry and mathematics. The NUC locates only four copies of this edition (MB, MH, CtY, DLC).

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