'Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio Problematis Isoperimetrici... Auctore Leonhardo Eulero ...'
MS. Savile 103
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
'Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio Problematis Isoperimetrici... Auctore Leonhardo Eulero ...'
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 103
Summary
'Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio Problematis Isoperimetrici... Auctore Leonhardo Eulero ...', with Additamenta and diagrams: the copy made for, and from which was printed, the Lausanne edition of the work (1744).
Date
Written in about A.D. 1740 in Switzerland (?)
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
384 pages
Custodial history
At p. iii is a letter from dr. J. A. Cramer, principal of New Inn Hall, June 1, 1847, presenting the MS. to the Savilian Library, and stating that it was owned by dr. Cramer's ancestor, prof. Gabriel Cramer, whose marginal notes in French show that he superintended the issue of the printed edition of 1744.
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Collection contents
Scientific Papers
'Methodus inveniendi lineas curvas maximi minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio Problematis Isoperimetrici... Auctore Leonhardo Eulero ...'
