‎CHASLES (M.)‎
‎Aperçu historique sur l'origine et le développement des méthodes en géométrie particulièrement de celles qui se rapportent à la géométrie moderne suivi d'un mémoire de géométrie sur deux principes généraux de la science, la dualité et l'homographie -- EDITION ORIGINALE‎

‎BRUXELLES, HAYES, 1837, un fort volume in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (cachet de bibliothèque), (2), 851pp.‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- "A STANDARD HISTORICAL WORK" ---- "The FIRST EDITION of the Aperçu historique appeared in Mémoires couronnés par l'Académie de Bruxelles (1837) and is very rare". (DSB) ---- "The Aperçu historique established Chasles' reputation both as a geometer and a historian of mathematics... He saw clearly the basic concepts and their ramifications in what is now known as projective geometry, and his texts were influential in the teaching of that subject in Germany and Great Britain as well as in France... The Aperçu historique remains a classic example of a good history of mathematics written by a mathematician". (DSB III pp. 212/214) ---- "His admirable Aperçu historique sur l'origine et le développement des méthodes en géométrie contains a history of geometry and, as an appendix, a treatise "Sur deux principes généraux de la science". The Aperçu historique is still a standard historical work ; the appendix contains the general theory of homography (collineation) and of duality (reciprocity)". (Cajori p. 292) ---- Honeyman n° 671**1187/K1‎