Nouvelle Méthode en Géométrie pour les Superficies coniques et cylindriques - Les Planiconiques . Bound with: De Cycloide Lemma

by Philippe de La Hire

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris; Paris: chez l’autheur et Thomas Moette; n.p. , 1673 -1674 ; 1676. First edition, extremely rare, of these two works, of which the Nouvelle Méthode is the first substantial treatment of projective geometry, explicating the Brouillon Projet of Girard Desargues 1591-1661 . “The BrouillonProjet 1639 was published in an edition of only 50 copies and won very little

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