Traite elementaire de Statique, A l'usage des Ecoles de la Marine. Troisieme edition.. This item is unavailable.Traite elementaire de Statique, A l'usage des Ecoles de la Marine. Troisieme edition.

8vo. 200 pp. 5 folding engraved plates. Original mauve paste-paper over boards; extremities quite worn. Title ink signature of Chastel d'Argent. Very good. Monge was a French mathematician, and the inventor of descriptive geometry. This work was first issued in 1786. In 1798 Monge joined Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, taking part with C. L. Berthollet in the scientific work of the Institut d'Egypte and the Egyptian Institute of Sciences and Arts. They accompanied Bonaparte to Syria, and returned with him in 1798 to France.