Sotheran, 10792.<\/i><\/p>\n
Second edition of the first French book on differential calculus. Guillaume de L’Hospital (1661-1704) was close to Huygens and Leibniz.<\/p>\n
“It was through his wide network of acquaintances in various European countries that Leibniz put into effect all his strategies for the spread of his analysis. … In France it was through the Oratorian circle of Nicolas Malebranche (1638\u20131715) that Johann Bernoulli introduced in 1691 the Leibnizian calculus. His lessons to the Marquis de l\u2019H\u00f4pital led to the draft of the first treatise of differential calculus … The spread and acceptance of the Leibnizian calculus was transferred in this way to the wide public, through the manuals and textbooks written for students at universities or ecclesiastical colleges\u201d (Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics, p.56).<\/p>\n
Bound with :<\/strong><\/p>\n VARIGNON. <\/strong>Eclaircissemens sur l’analyse des infiniment petits. Paris, Rollin, 1725.<\/i> 4to, 4 nn.ll., 118 pp., 1 nn.l., 6 plates. DSB, XIII, p.584.<\/p>\n Sotheran, I, 5040.<\/i><\/p>\n First edition of this posthumous work.<\/p>\n Varignon vigorously sided with L\u2019Hospital in the quarrel over the infinitely small, which agitated the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences.<\/p>\n “Ses \u00e9claircissements mirent d\u00e9sormais \u00e0 l’abri de toute contestation la d\u00e9couverte de Leibniz et de Newton” (Biog. g\u00e9n.).<\/p>\n “Fully occupied by his teaching duties and his responsibilities as an academician, Varignon had no leisure to prepare works for publication. From the papers he left at his death, most of which are now lost, his disciples assembled several posthumous works: Nouvelle m\u00e9canique, Eclaircissements sur l’analyse des infiniment petits (1725). His intense pedagogical activity, extending over more than thirty years, constituted his chief contribution to the progress of science and was the source of his fame. … His acceptance of the new procedures occurred between 1692 and 1695, and he was among those who gave the most favorable reception to the publication of L’Hospital\u2019s Analyse des infiniment petits. The Eclaircissemens is composed of critical notes that Varignon, as professor, considered necessary in presenting L’Hospital\u2019s pioneering work to young mathematicians\u201d (DSB).<\/p>\n Good copy.<\/p>\n Rubber-stamp from Lyc\u00e9e d’Auch, book-plate J. Cassinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (243 x 182 mm) XV, 181 pp., 11 engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":72369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[947,1330],"class_list":{"0":"post-72374","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-algebra","8":"product_tag-mathematics","9":"pa_auteur-lhospital-guillaume-francois-antoine-marquis-de-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"Guillaume Fran\u00e7ois Antoine, marquis de L'HOSPITAL","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Montalant, 1716","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n