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Title

Traité elémentaire et synthètique des sections coniques

Authors

• Nicollet, J. N. 1786-1843
• Raymond, George-Marie, 1769-1839

Other related names

• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 213
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5978619
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5978619

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

1809

Place

Chambéry

Summary

Treatise on conical sections divided into 3 chapters (numbered first, second, and fourth) on ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas, based on the teaching of George-Marie Raymond, who was the chair of mathematics at the École normale de Chambéry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r); caption title Traité elémentaire des sections coniques.
   

Extent

64 leaves : 265-274 x 192-196 mm. bound to 283 x 208 mm

Collation

Paper, 64 leaves; 1² 2-3²² 4²²(-2, including pastedown).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (19th-century) paper board binding.

Layout

Written in 26 lines on the right half of each page, with diagrams, when present, drawn on the left half of the page; vertical dividing lines ruled in lead.

Decoration

Geometric diagrams, numbered as Figure 1 (f. 3v) - Figure 31 (f. 55r).

Script

Written in cursive script by J. N. Nicollet.

Provenance

• Sold by F. Thomas Heller, Inc. (Swarthmore, Pa.), 1995.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 44.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics
• Geometry

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, French--19th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Introduction, f. 3r
• fol. 11r — Chapitre premier: De l'ellipse, f. 11r
• fol. 35r — Chapitre second: De l'hyperbole, f. 35r
• fol. 50v — Chapitre quatrie?me [sic]: De la parabole, f. 50v

Decorations

• fol. 3v — Diagram, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Diagram, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Diagram, f. 4v
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Diagram, f. 6r
• fol. 11r — Diagram, f. 11r
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Diagram, f. 15r
• fol. 15v — Diagram, f. 15v
• fol. 18r — Diagram, f. 18r
• fol. 20v — Diagram, f. 20v
• fol. 22v — Diagram, f. 22v
• fol. 23v — Diagram, f. 23v
• fol. 29r — Diagram, f. 29r
• fol. 30r — Diagram, f. 30r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 31v — Diagram, f. 31v
• fol. 34r — Diagram, f. 34r
• fol. 35r — Diagram, f. 35r
• fol. 37v — Diagram, f. 37v
• fol. 40v — Diagram, f. 40v
• fol. 41v — Diagram, f. 41v
• fol. 42r — Diagram, f. 42r
• fol. 43v — Diagram, f. 43v
• fol. 45r — Diagram, f. 45r
• fol. 47r — Diagram, f. 47r
• fol. 48r — Diagram, f. 48r
• fol. 49r — Diagram, f. 49r
• fol. 50v — Diagram, f. 50v
• fol. 52v — Diagram, f. 52v
• fol. 54r — Diagram, f. 54r
• fol. 54v — Diagram, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Diagram, f. 55r