CAMUS, Charles-Étienne-Louis - Cours de mathématique. Paris, - Lot 138

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CAMUS, Charles-Étienne-Louis - Cours de mathématique. Paris, - Lot 138
CAMUS, Charles-Étienne-Louis - Cours de mathématique. Paris, Ballard et Imprimerie Royale, 1751-1755, 3 parts in 4 vols. in-8, marbled fawn calf, spine with gilt fillets, irons and fleurons, red title and tomaison, triple gilt fillet on the boards, VIII-[4]-480, [2]-VI-568, XX-376 and VIII-460-[2] pp. (M.3) (1303031) 90 folding engravings. Charles-Étienne-Louis Camus, mathematician and astronomer (1699-1768), sent in 1736 to the North (with Maupertuis, Clairaut and other scholars) to determine the shape of the earth, was later an examiner of the engineering and artillery schools, for which he composed his Cours de mathématique.
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