Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problêmes tant déterminez qu'indéterminez. Ouvrage posthume.

Paris, Montalant, 1720

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4to: [vi]-459 pp.; 34 pl. (small repair on title).

Contemp. carton boards with 19th-c. vellum spine with handwritten title and date (boards rubbed).

Second, posthumous ed. (1st: 1707) of this mathematical and geometrical work by Guillaume-François Antoine de L'Hospital, marquis de Sainte-Mesme, comte d'Entremont (1661-1704). Another edition was published in 1776. L'Hospital was a student of Johannes Bernoulli and correspondent of Leibniz, whose Abhandlung (1684) on this subject de L'Hospital had read (Kowalewski, Grosse Mathematiker, 115). L'Hospital devoted his life entirely to mathematical sciences and also published the highly esteemed first textbook on differential calculus: "Analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes" (1696). Ill. with 34 fold. engr. mathematical pl., a finely engr. pictorial text-vignette and an engr. letterpiece on first p.
Ref. DSB VIII: 304-305. - Poggendorf I: 1146.
Prov. Docteur R. Rickaert (pictorial bookpl. on front pastedown). - "d'Arros" (ms. entry on title).