Jan de Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus: Text, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Albert W. Grootendorst

by Johan De Witt and Albertus W. Grootendorst

The present book is a translation into English of Elernenta CU'f'Varurn Linearurn-Liber Prirnus, written in Latin, by the Dutch statesman and mathematician Jan de Witt (1625-1672). Together with its sequel, Ele- rnenta CU'f'Varurn Linearurn-Liber Secundus, it constitutes the first text- book on Analytic Geometry, based on the ideas of Descartes, as laid down in his Geornetrie of 1637. The first edition of de Witt's work appeared in 1659 and this translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387987487
• ISBN13: 9780387987484
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"