Recherches sur les courbes a double courbure

by Alexis Claude Clairaut

$8,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Nyon, Didot and Quillau, 1731. First edition, very rare, of Clairaut’s first publication, the first extended treatment of the geometry of curves in three dimensions, written when he was only sixteen. In it Clairaut demonstrates a claim made by Newton that all cubic curves in three dimensions are projections of a cubic curve of a special form. This publication led to Clairaut’s election to the Académie des

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