‎MACLAURIN (C.)‎
‎Traité d'algèbre et la manière de l'appliquer. Traduit de l'anglais (par LE COZIC) avec des augmentations tirées des mathématiciens les plus célèbres (NEWTON, WOLF, S'GRAVESANDE, SAUNDERSON, EULER) -- PREMIERE EDITION FRANCAISE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Jombert, 1753, un volume in 4 relié en pleine basane, dos orné de caissons dorés, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque), (accroc à une coiffe, petites rousseurs à un feuillet, mouillures pâles dans la marge de deux feuillets), 8pp., 418pp., 13 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES, 3 :feuillets non chiffrés (1 ff errata + 1ff de privilège+1ff catalogue de l'éditeur)‎

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‎---- PREMIERE DITION FRANCAISE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE ---- MacLaurin défendit et approfondit les recherches de Newton ---- "A posthumous work on the application of algebra to geometry to which MacLaurin joined a latin tract "De linearum geometricarum proprietatibus generalibus", printed from a manuscript written and corrected in MacLaurin's own hand ---- "Maclaurin was educated at the University of Glasgow and at 19 was made professor of mathematics at Aberdeen. Two years later, he was admitted F.R.S. and made the acquaintance of Newton. In 1722, he went to France and won the prize of the French Academy of Sciences. On the recommandation of Newton, he was elected professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1725 and helped form the Royal Society of Edinburgh...". (Babson & DSB VIII pp. 609/612) ---- Cajori pp. 228/229**34330/3433/o1-ARB2‎