PONCELET (Jean-Victor).

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PONCELET (Jean-Victor).
A treatment of the projective properties of figures. Paris, Bachelier, 1822. In-4, blue half calf with corners, spine decorated in gold and cold stamping, fawn coin, speckled edges (English binding of the time). Original edition, decorated with 12 plates. An important work marking the entry of projective geometry into the 19th century. Poncelet (1788-1867), a pupil of Gaspard Monge, took part in the Russian campaign as an engineer's lieutenant and was taken prisoner in November 1812 at the Battle of Krasnoye. During his captivity, his only refuge was mathematics. It is in this treatise that Poncelet set out his famous conic theorem. Ex-libris of the Turner Collection, a library focusing on the history of mathematics founded by a man named Charles Turner who bequeathed it to the library of the University of Keele (England) in 1968, which scandalously disposed of it by selling it. Rubbed binding.
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