[Rarebooks] fa: GILLES PERSONNE DE ROBERVAL - OUVRAGES DE MATHEMATIQUE 1736 - 26 Folding Plates

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Gilles Personne de Roberval: Ouvrages de Mathematique de M. de Roberval. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1736. Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Tome III. Text in French and Latin. Thick 4to (26.5 cm) in later half calf and marbled boards; [4] + 399 pp.; engraved vignette and 26 engraved folding plates (complete).

An early illustrated collection of the principal works of pioneering mathematician Gilles de Roberval (1602-75), most of which first appeared in 1693. Included are his Traite des Indivisibles; Observations sur la Composition des Mouvements & sur les moiens de trouver Touchantes des Lignes courbes; Projet d'un Livre de Mechanique traitant des Mouvemens composez; De Recognitione aequationum; De Resolutione geometrica planarum & Cubicarm Aequationum; De Torchoide; etc. "Roberval was one of the leading proponents of the geometry of infinitesimals, which he claimed to have taken directly from Archimedes, without having known of the work of Cavalieri. Moreover, in supposing that the constituent elements of a figure possess the same dimensions as the figure itself, Roberval came closer to the integral calculus than did Cavalieri... On account of his method of 'composition of movements'  Roberval may be called the founder of kinematic geometry. This construction has three applications - the fundamental and most famous being the construction of tangents..." (Dictionary of Scientific Biography).

Binding with modest wear and bumping to the extremities, spine leather a bit darkened and dried; some browning to the upper corner of the title-page, mild toning to the leaves and plates, some dimpling of the paper as usual; intermittent damp-stain to the top margins, mostly light but occasionally more pronounced; a few small scattered spots; otherwise very clean and crisp, firmly bound.