Sectiones conicae in novem libros distributae... Adjecta demum est brevis expositio propositionum septem librorum conicorum Apollonii Pergaei.
Paris: Apud Stephanum Michallet, 1685.
1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #002324
Folio (361 x 232 mm). [8], 249 [1] pp., numerous woodcut diagrams in text. Contemporary calf, spine with 6 raised bands richly gilt in compartments and with gilt morocco lettering piece (boards scratched, extremities and spine-ends worn, corners bumped), sprinkled edges. Minor browning of text, very few occasional spots, ink smudge at margin of pp.73 and 81, small burnhole in leaf 3P3 affecting one letter. A fine copy. ----
D.S.B. VII, p. 577; Honeyman 1886; Sotheran, Suppl. I, 1350. - FIRST EDITION of La Hire's extensive treatise on conic sections. La Hire published in 1673 his first work (in French) on conic sections, a work clearly showing the influence of Desargues. This Latin treatise is a much more general work, but it too served as a primary vehicle for the transmission of the ideas of Desargues, making use of Cartesian analytic geometry in its analyses and solutions. "Important for having started, with Pascal and Desargues, synthetic geometry" (Sotheran).
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