Gaspard Monge. (B&W engraving).
Paris: A. J. Denain, [1830s?]. Original B&W gravure. 6 x 9.25 inches. Very Good. Penciled notation in bottom margin. Gaspard Monge was a French mathematician and physicist who put descriptive geometry, introduced by Albrecht Dürer, on a firm mathematical footing. He became professor of mathematics at Mézières (1768) and of..... More