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An elementary treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry, and on the application of algebra to geometry / from the mathematics of Lacroix and Bézout. Translated from the French for the use of the students of the university at Cambridge, New England.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - E.F. Smith Collection 540.92 B648.2L no.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lacroix, S. F. (Silvestre François), 1765-1843.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Trigonometry.
- Geometry, Analytic--Plane.
- Geometry, Analytic.
- Penn Provenance:
- Penniman, Josiah Harmar, 1868-1941 (donor)
- Physical Description:
- iv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 162 pages, v leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, N.E. : Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf, at the University Press. Sold by W. Hilliard, Cambridge, and by Cummings & Hilliard, No. 1 Cornhill, Boston, 1820.
- Notes:
- Translated by John Farrar.
- The treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry is from Lacroix's Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique; the chapter on the application of algebra to geometry is from E. Bézout's Cours de mathématiques, à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine.
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker 1893
- OCLC:
- 4100774
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