The mathematical works of Isaac Barrow ... /
Ed. for Trinity college by W. Whewell ...

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Main Author

Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677

Related Names

Whewell, William, 1794-1866, editor.
Whewell, William, 1794-1866, ed.

Language(s)

Latin ; English

Published

Cambridge : University press, 1860.

Subjects

Mathematics
Curves, Plane
Geometrical optics
Mathematics

Note

Includes reprints of the original title pages, dated 1683, 1669, and 1670 respectively.
"The principal contents of the present volume are the lectures which Barrow delivered as Lucasian professor of mathematics, an office which he held from 1664 to 1670. And these consist of three series: the Lectiones mathematicae, the Lectiones opticae, and the Lectiones geometricae."--Pref.
Pt. 2 has half-title: Lectiones opticae et geometricae.
Text in Latin.

Physical Description

2 pts. in 1 v. diagr. on 27 fold. pl. 24 cm.

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