Traité de la trigonometrie, pour resoudre tous triangles rectilignes et spheriques. Avec les demonstrations des deux celebres propositions du Baron de Merchiston, non encores demonstrees.
Rare first and only edition of a treatise on trigonometry – illustrated with numerous woodcut diagrams – by James Hume of Godscroft, a Scottish mathematician living in Paris. The work includes information on logarithms as recently discovered by John Napier in 1614 (including a folding table of logarithms based on..... More