Introduction aux mathematiques

Description
Introduction to mathematics in four books, mostly on the subject of plane geometry, illustrated with diagrams.
Creator
Buot, J. (Jacques)
Form
manuscripts (documents)
codices (bound manuscripts)
diagrams
Manuscripts, French
Manuscripts, European
Date
1675
Language
French
Subject
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800
Geometry -- Early works to 1800
Geometry
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Extent
236 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 245 x 185 (163 x 98) mm bound to 252 x 195 mm + 6 notes
Notes
Ms. codex.
Member of the Académie des Sciences of Paris from its founding in 1666, mathematician, astronomer, physicist.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, ii + 232 + ii; 1-172, [iv], 173, [ii], 168-169, [vi], 176-177, [vi], 184-185, [vi], 192-193, [vi], 200-201, [vi], 208, [xii]; near-contemporary foliation in ink; 1-172, [173-232], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by one or two hands.
Decoration: Illustrated with diagrams throughout.
Binding: Contemporary leather with title and attribution on spine. Top quarter of manuscript is water-stained, but text is legible.
Origin: Written in France, 1675-1699.
Marginal notes in pencil in a later hand.
French.
Also listed in
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Physical Location
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 808
Provenance
Sold by Roger Gaskell, 2000.
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Resource Type
Text

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