Geometrica demostratio theorematum Hugenianorum circa logisticam, seu logarithmicam lineam

by Guido Grandi

$4,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

First edition of Grandi’s demonstration of Huygen’s logarithmic curve. Huygens had first enunciated theorems concerning the logarithmic or logistic curve (y = b ln(x/a) or x = aey/b) in a communication read before the Paris Academy in 1669; Grandi here demonstrates them in print for the first time. Torricelli had..... More

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