| Description | Manuscript volume, 19th century, containing mathematical texts, comprising Anmerkungen Zu (remarks on):
(1) Joseph-Louis Lagrange's 'De La Resolution Des Equations Numeriques', a 19th-century manuscript copy of the printed edition of 1798
2) Paolo Frisi's 'Cosmographia' (Physica et Mathematica), a 19th-century manuscript copy of the printed edition of 1774-1775.
With diagrams. |
| AdminHistory | Joseph-Louis Lagrange (Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia), Comte De L'empire: born in Turin, 1736; Italian-French mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of numbers and to analytic and celestial mechanics; taught mathematics at the artillery school of Turin; early publications on the propagation of sound and the concept of maxima and minima were well received; instrumental in founding the Turin Academy of Sciences; died in Paris, 1813. Publications include: 'Mcanique analytique' (1788) ('Analytic Mechanics').
Paolo Frisi: born in Milan, 1728; Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist; a member of the Barnabite religious order, a professor at the University of Milan, and a member of most of the major scientific societies; author of an influential work on hydraulics, widely used as an engineering handbook; plans for most of the major hydraulic works constructed in northern Italy during his adult life were submitted to him for inspection; author of influential commentaries on other scientists such as Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton; died in Milan, 1784. Publications include: 'Del modo di regolare i fiumi, e i torrenti' (1762) ('A Treatise on Rivers and Torrents'). |
| CustodialHistory | The manuscript formed part of the library of John Thomas Graves (1806-1870), mathematician and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, whose collection included manuscripts dating from the 15th to the 19th century, relating mainly to mathematics. Formerly Graves 3744. |