Anonyme - Manuscrit - cours de mathématiques - 1835

Unknown — Manuscript Course of Mathematics, excerpt from a student’s notebooks — 1835-1836

This manuscript is a unique piece, a precious testimony of elitist scientific teaching under the July Monarchy.

The volume of about 500 pages exhaustively compiles the lessons in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and descriptive geometry taught at the time.

It includes numerous geometric drawings, finely executed with a pen and ink, as well as many technical tables and diagrams integrated into the text.

Mastery of geometry and perspective indicates a solid mathematical training probably provided in institutions such as the École Polytechnique or the royal lycées.

The ruler-and-compass drawings, of great precision, reveal a practitioner accustomed to handling precision measuring instruments.

Object of curiosity.

500 pages