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 Montucla
Jean Richer had been sent there by the French government almost exactly 100 years earlier and Montucla also went there as an astronomer.
Montucla's major work, the first classical history of mathematics, was a comprehensive and, relative to the state of contemporary scholarship, accurate description of the development of the subject in various countries.
Montucla was appointed royal astronomer and secretary to a French expedition to French Guiana in 1764 and was sent to La Ravardière.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Montucla.html   (1710 words)

  
 Imago Mundi - Jean-Etienne de Montucla.
Montucla (Jean Étienne), savant mathématicien, né à Lyon le 5 septembre 1725, mort le 18 décembre 1799 à Versailles.
Montucla avait été nommé membre de l'Institut dès sa fondation.
www.cosmovisions.com /Montucla.htm   (161 words)

  
 Montucla
Jean Richer had been sent there by the French government almost exactly 100 years earlier and Montucla also went there as an astronomer.
Montucla's major work, the first classical history of mathematics, was a comprehensive and, relative to the state of contemporary scholarship, accurate description of the development of the subject in various countries.
Montucla was appointed royal astronomer and secretary to a French expedition to French Guiana in 1764 and was sent to La Ravardière.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Montucla.html   (161 words)

  
 Did She Become A Nun?
Jean Étienne Montucla (1725-1799) Histoire des Mathématiques, Paris, 1758.
instructional1.calstatela.edu /sgray/Agnesi/Nun/Nun.html   (161 words)

  
 NOVA Online The Proof Math's Hidden Woman
The event that changed her life occurred one day when she was browsing in her father's library and chanced upon Jean-Étienne Montucla's book History of Mathematics.
The chapter that caught her imagination was Montucla's essay on the life of Archimedes.
His account of Archimedes' discoveries was undoubtedly interesting, but what particularly kindled her fascination was the story surrounding his death.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html   (161 words)

  
 Did She Become A Nun?
Jean Étienne Montucla (1725-1799) Histoire des Mathématiques, Paris, 1758.
instructional1.calstatela.edu /sgray/Agnesi/Nun/Nun.html   (511 words)

  
 NOVA Online The Proof Math's Hidden Woman
The event that changed her life occurred one day when she was browsing in her father's library and chanced upon Jean-Étienne Montucla's book History of Mathematics.
The chapter that caught her imagination was Montucla's essay on the life of Archimedes.
His account of Archimedes' discoveries was undoubtedly interesting, but what particularly kindled her fascination was the story surrounding his death.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/proof/germain.html   (2400 words)

  
 Smith, Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence - Essays on Philsophical Subjects: General Introduction: The Online Library of Liberty
But by 1758 a student would have been better advised to read Jean–Étienne Montucla’s Histoire des mathématiques (written incidentally in the enlightened spirit characteristic of the young Adam Smith) which by 1802 had been revised and extended by Jérôme de Lalande.
More striking still, he follows this reference by instancing a passage in Montucla’s Histoire des mathématiques (Paris, 1758) which included long sections on ‘mixed’ mathematics (viz.
The first history of astronomy still used as an important work of reference was completed by Jean–Baptiste–Joseph Delambre in 1827.
oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/LFBooks/Smith0232/GlasgowEdition/PhilosophicalSubjects/HTMLs/0141-04_Pt01_Intro.html   (14602 words)

  
 Cassiodore : Institutiones II, 5 : De Musica
Bien entendu, l'«expérience» attribuée à Pythagore est scientifiquement inexacte, ce philosophe ayant travaillé - si tant est qu'il l'ait fait lui-même - sur des nombres abstraits et non sur des réalités acoustiques concrètes, comme l'a démontré le premier Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725-1799) dans son Histoire des Mathématiques, tome I (Paris, 1758-1763 ; réimpr.
Contemporain et ami de Cassidore, traducteur des homélies de saint Jean Chrysostome et, peut-être, des Actes des Apôtres.
Cette anecdote, qui est un lieu commun de la théorie musicale antique, est rapportée par de nombreux auteurs grecs et latins dont nous avons donné la liste dans le commentaire de notre édition critique de l' Epistola de Armonica Institutione de Réginon de Prüm, mais principalement par Nicomaque, chap.
www.musicologie.org /publirem/hmt/hmt_cassiodore.html   (3477 words)

  
 Math Puzzle Etienne
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