Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 104
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
CHASLES, MICHEL. Aperçu Historique sur l'Origine et le Développement des Méthodes en Géométrie . . . Troisième Édition, conforme à la Première.<> Half-title. 4to, later 3/4 buckram, spine faded, original wrappers bound in. Paris, 1889

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First published in 1837, Chasles's first major work, expanded with historical and mathematical notes from a prize-winning memoir on the methods of modern geometry, " . . . established his reputation both as a geometer and a historian of mathematics . . . His books and almost all of his many memoirs are elaborations of points originally discussed in these notes"--DSB III, 212-13.<