Adrien-Marie Legendre - Éléments de Géométrie, avec des notes - 1823

Exciting illustrated edition with 14 folding plates at the end of the work and augmented by the famous geometry treatise by Adrien-Marie Legendre, designed to offer a rigorous, clear, and progressive exposition of the fundamental principles of Euclidean geometry -

The work systematically presents the essential notions of the discipline, starting with the definitions of points, lines, angles, and plane figures, then developing the properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, circles, and solids -

Legendre aims to demonstrate the theorems in a logical and orderly manner, seeking to simplify and make more accessible the rigour sometimes encountered in Euclid's Elements. The treatise emphasizes the demonstrative method, based on precise deductive reasoning, and constitutes a model of pedagogical clarity intended for secondary and higher education -

The notes added in this 1823 edition provide further insights, supplementary demonstrations, and sometimes historical or methodological remarks that help to better understand the construction of geometric arguments -

Adrien-Marie Legendre - Elements of Geometry, with notes - 1823 - Firmin Didot, père et fils -
431 pages

Good condition of the binding, book in full brown morocco leather of the period, wear from use, gilded edges, smooth decorated spine, gilded title and author name, cold-stamped rule lines framing the boards -

Good interior condition, rare foxing, beautiful vignette on the title page, book enriched with 14 folding plates at the end of the book, marbled fly-leaves in good condition, good copy -

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