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Introduction aux mathematiques / par Jaques Buot, cosmographe et ingenieur ordinaire du roy.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Buot, J. (Jacques)
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Geometry--Early works to 1800.
- Geometry.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- diagrams
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Roger Gaskell, 2000.
- Physical Description:
- 236 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 245 x 185 (163 x 98) mm bound to 252 x 195 mm + 6 notes
- Place of Publication:
- [France], [between 1675 and 1699]
- Language Note:
- 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.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 808
- OCLC:
- 155910938
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