Traité elémentaire [et] synthètique des sections coniques / redigé par M[onsieur] N. Nicollet, d'aprés les leçons de M[onsieur] G. M. Raymond.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843.

Contributor:

• Raymond, George-Marie, 1769-1839.
• Stanitz, John D., former owner.
• Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
• Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

• Mathematics.
• Geometry.

Genre:

• Codices.
• Diagrams.
• Treatises.
• Manuscripts, French.
• Manuscripts, Digital.

Penn Provenance:

• Sold by F. Thomas Heller, Inc. (Swarthmore, Pa.), 1995.
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 44.
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Physical Description:

64 leaves : paper ; 265-274 x 192-196 mm bound to 283 x 208 mm

Production:

Chambéry, 1809.

Other Title:

Traité elémentaire des sections coniques.

Language Note:

French.

Biography/History:

French mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who studied at the Jesuit college in Chambéry before becoming a professor of mathematics; later in life he emigrated to the United States and mapped the Upper Mississippi River basin.

Summary:

Treatise on conical sections divided into 3 chapters (numbered first, second, and fourth) on ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas, based on the teaching of George-Marie Raymond, who was the chair of mathematics at the École normale de Chambéry.

Contents:

• 1. f.3r-10v: [Introduction]
• 2. f.11r-35r: Chapitre premier: De l'ellipse.
• 3. f.35r-50r: Chapitre second: De l'hyperbole.
• 4. f.50v-57r: Chapitre quatrième [sic]: De la parabole.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 2r); caption title Traité elémentaire des sections coniques.
• Collation: Paper, 64 leaves; 1² 2-3²² 4²²(-2, including pastedown).
• Layout: Written in 26 lines on the right half of each page, with diagrams, when present, drawn on the left half of the page; vertical dividing lines ruled in lead.
• Script: Written in cursive script by J. N. Nicollet.
• Decoration: Geometric diagrams, numbered as Figure 1 (f. 3v) - Figure 31 (f. 55r).
• Binding: Contemporary (19th-century) paper board binding.
• Origin: Written in Chambéry, in southeastern France, in 1809 (f. 2r).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 51 (LJS 213).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 213.

OCLC:

853011558

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page