La Chapelle. Traité des sections coniques. 1750
LA CHAPELLE, Abbé Jean-Baptiste de. Traité des sections coniques, et autres courbes anciennes.
Paris, J.F. Quillau, 1750.
300 €
8vo (19.6x12.2 cm), (2), iv, xxi, xvi, 330, (4) pages and 10 folding plates. binding: Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece, red edges. A light waterstains touching the upper margin of the first leaves, first plate creased. Tail of spine chipped with lack of leather, corners worn, upper joint starting to split at the head.
In this book that Le Blond judge "very good", Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle studies the main curves (parabola, ellipse, hyperbola, cissoid, conchoidal, quadratrix, spiral, cycloid) and their applications in the artillery , architecture, astronomy, acoustics and watches.
First edition of this work.
