Mathématiques

1715 · 55786 — Paris: Chez Francois Montalant Quay des Augustins de l’Imprimerie de J. Quillau 1715. 4to. xv 1 181 1 pp. With 11 folding engraved plates occasional light foxing couple minor closed tears and light thumbing & creasing to fore-edges woodcut engraved device on title woodcut engraved vignette and decorated initial. Contemporary mottled calf marbled endpapers raised bands on gilt decorated spine red & gilt morocco spine label marbled endpapers wear & rubbing to corners minor chipping foot of spine hinges just starting at foot of spine very minor ink mark to far upper right corner of first few signatures still a VG- copy from the library of Fred Lauber Engineer of Arts & Manufacturing w/ bookplate on front pastedown. Second edition of the first textbook of differential calculus which quickly disseminated the concepts and early development of the calculus of Bernoulli and Leibniz throughout Europe originally published anonymously in 1696. L’Hospital had arranged to receive private tutoring from Bernoulli in the new calculus and even after unknowingly sending Bernoulli’s solution of de Beune’s problem to Huygens without giving him credit was able to arrange with Bernoulli to continue their arrangement for a stipend. The last chapter of this textbook contains what is now known as “L’Hospital’s rule†for finding the limiting value of a fraction whose numerator and denominator tend to zero actually the work of Bernoulli. See: Norman 1345 1696 edition. Chez Francois Montalant, Quay des Augustins, [de l’Imprimerie de J. Quillau], hardcover