Details

Subjects:

Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Diagrams.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

French.

Biography/History:

Member of the Académie des Sciences of Paris from its founding in 1666, mathematician, astronomer, physicist.

Summary:

Introduction to mathematics in four books, mostly on the subject of plane geometry, illustrated with diagrams.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
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.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Roger Gaskell, 2000.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 808

OCLC:

155910938