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Daguerre Savoie

162 - (Mathematics) – 6 volumes.
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(Mathematics) – 6 volumes. - HOGBEN (Lancelot). The World of Numbers: A History and Development of Mathematics. Paris, Pont Royal, 1962. Quarto, publisher’s cloth binding with illustrated dust jacket. 320 pp, over 300 drawings, sketches, facsimiles and vignettes, in black and colour. - FENWICK (Edward). James Clerk Maxwell and Nineteenth-Century Physics. A Bibliographical Catalogue and Biographical Guide. (Connecticut), 2011. In-4, XVIII pp, [1 f], 637 pp, illustrated hardback by the publisher. Very little has been written about the famous Scottish physicist and mathematician (1831–1879), James Clerk Maxwell. He was one of the most brilliant scientists of his time, to whom Einstein paid tribute on several occasions. His studies and works are listed here in an analytical bibliography followed by a detailed biography. - LEIBNIZ (Gottfried Wilhelm). Unpublished letters and short works, preceded by an introduction by Louis-Alexandre Foucher de Careil. Paris, 1854 (Reprint, 2007). In-8, CXII, 336 pp, publisher’s cloth. - LEIBNIZ (G.W.). Unpublished treatises and fragments. Extracts from the manuscripts of the Royal Library of Hanover. By Louis Couturat. Paris, Alcan, 1903 (Reprinted by Georg Olms, 1988). 8vo, paperback. [3 ff], XIV, 682 pp., [1 f] - TANNERY (Paul). Greek Geometry. Paris, 1887 (Reprinted, 1988). In-8, 196 pp, paperback. - TAYLOR (Eva Germaine). The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart England. Cambridge, 1954 (Reprint, 2001). 8vo, XI, 442 pp, publisher’s cloth. A history of physician-mathematicians from 1495 to 1715. This is followed by biographies of 582 of these physicians, followed by a bibliography of 628 works covering the same period.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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