RECREATIONS IN MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY:; Containing amusing dissertations and enquiries concerning a variety of subjects the most remarkable and proper to excite curiosity and attention to the whole range of the mathematical and philosophical sciences: The Whole treated in a pleasing and easy Manner, and adapted to the comprehension of all who are the least initiated in those Sciences . First composed by . of the Royal Academy of Sciences, &c, lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged, in a new edition, by the celebrated M. Montucla. And now translated into English, and improved with many additions and observations, by Charles Hutton . in four volumes with near one hundred (97) copper-plates (VOL III)

Ozanam, Jacques

Published by LONDON, 1803

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A French mathematician, born at Bouligneux (Ain), 1640, Ozanam died in Paris in 1717. He came of a rich family which had converted from Judiasm to Catholicism.Though he began the study of theology to please his father, he was more strongly attracted to mathematics, which he mastered without the aid of a teacher. His mathematical publications were numerous and well received. Recreations, translated later into English and well known today, was published in 1694. He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences in 1701. GOOD LEATHER HARDCOVER. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES.

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• Title: RECREATIONS IN MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY:; Containing amusing dissertations and enquiries concerning a variety of subjects the most remarkable and proper to excite curiosity and attention to the whole range of the mathematical and philosophical sciences: The Whole treated in a pleasing and easy Manner, and adapted to the comprehension of all who are the least initiated in those Sciences . First composed by . of the Royal Academy of Sciences, &c, lately recomposed, and greatly enlarged,...
• Publisher: LONDON
• Publication Date: 1803
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good