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[MANUSCRIT]. [GEOMETRY]. [SAUVEUR (Joseph)]. Elemens de géom - Lot 96
[MANUSCRIT]. [GEOMETRY]. [SAUVEUR (Joseph)]. Elemens de géométrie. A l'usage des enfans de France
In French, manuscript on paper with engraved plates
France, 18th century 280 pp, text divided into six books, cursive handwriting in brown ink, with signature on the first title "Dodart" (let us also note the initials D.D. on the upper back cover). A "Denis Dodart", French physician and botanist (1634-1707) is known. With 25 folding engraved plates.
Bound in full vellum, smooth spine with parchment missing, red edges. Some worm damage to the paper. Size: 185 x 235 mm.
Manuscript copy of the geometry lessons prepared by Joseph Sauveur for the instruction of Louis de Bretagne and the Duc d'Anjou (future Louis XV), the sons of the Grand Dauphin Louis of France (1686-1712). Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716), was born in La Flèche. Mute until the age of seven, he had difficulties with diction all his life. From the 1670s he studied mathematics and became a teacher at court, where in 1680 he became master of mathematics for the pages of Madame la Dauphine and later for Louis de Bourbon-Condé and the princes of France.
Guillaume Le Blond published Géométrie élémentaire et pratique de feu M. Sauveur revue et corrigée, Paris, 1753: "Il y a longtemps que les ....treatises which compose this volume, are advantageously known of the public, hardly M. Sauveur had written them that the majority of the Masters of Mathematics adopted them & in spite of the difficulty of having the exact copies, & their cost, they were multiplied in such a way that the works were almost as widespread as if they had been printed ".
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