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L'Hospital,(G.F.A.). Traite analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la resolution des equations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu'indéterminez. Ouvrage posthume. Paris, Moutard 1776. 4°. With 33 folded. Copperplate 2 pp., 459 pp., 2 pp. Central hardcover with ribbed boards and ribbed pastedown (edges damaged, more worn, rubbed). Cf. Poggendorf I, 1146, Cantor III, 427 and DSB VIII, 304 - First published in 1707. "De L'Hospital shows not only that a conic section arises, but also what special conditions must be fulfilled for the conic section to be an ellipse, a hyperbola, a parabola. He thus goes far beyond what Newton had stated in his Principles" (Cantor). - End somewhat loosened, slightly browned, somewhat stained in places. With hs. Owner's inscription on title page.
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