Bossut, Charles, 1730-1814. A course of mathematicks : manuscript, [1796] / by Monsieur Bossuet ; translated from the French by Walter Minto, professor of Mathematicks & N. Philosophy in the College of N. Jersey. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Bossut, Charles, 1730-1814. A course of mathematicks : manuscript, [1796] / by Monsieur Bossuet ; translated from the French by Walter Minto, professor of Mathematicks & N. Philosophy in the College of N. Jersey.

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A course of mathematicks : manuscript, [1796] / by Monsieur Bossuet ; translated from the French by Walter Minto, professor of Mathematicks & N. Philosophy in the College of N. Jersey.

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Autograph manuscript of a translation by Minto, incomplete and in unknown hand, of M. Bossut's work on geometry, n.d., Princeton, c. 1795-1796; includes diagrams.

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1 bound ms. (132 p.) ; 22 x 17 cm.

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Minto, Walter, 1753-1796

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Walter Minto was one of Princeton's earliest teachers of mathematics, and perhaps the first deserving the designation "mathematician." He was born in the Merse district of Scotland in a family of Spanish origin. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Edinburgh. Minto was in Pisa Italy, on March 13, 1781, when William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, which Minto got to see in a telescope. His publications include his treatise RESEARCHES INTO SOME PARTS OF THE THEOTY OF TH...