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Copy of the first printing with the errata on the back of page vii.
The illustration includes 24/25 plates (missing plate 6).
Period binding in half brown calfskin, smooth spine adorned with a piece of red leather.
Spine restored, covers in good condition. Interior in good general condition, slightly yellowed paper, some rare foxing and slight traces of handling. On the title a small task & old handwritten ex-libris in black pen. The plates in the first edition engraved by Delettre after Gérard, the first passed with small marginal restoration. Margins with marks on the plates 3.4. 13,21 and 23.
We no longer need to introduce the father of descriptive geometry and one of the founders of the Ecole polytechnique. Let us simply recall that Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), had composed this work for the students of the Normal School, the first edition of which appeared in 1799.
. "Descriptive Geometry has two objects: the first, to give the methods of representing on a sheet of drawing which has only two dimensions, namely, length, width and depth, all the bodies of nature which have three of them, length , width and depth, provided nevertheless that these bodies can be rigorously defined. their shape and their respective positions" (page 5)
Monge revived the study of certain branches of geometry, and his work was the starting point for the remarkable flowering of that subject during the nineteenth century.... Elaborated, during the period 1766–1775, Monge's important, contribution is known from his ?o?trie descriptive, the text of his courses at the École Normale de l'An III (1795), and from the manuscript of his lectures given, that year at the École Polytechnique. Before him, various practitioners, artists, and geometers, including Albrecht Dürer, had applied certain aspects of this technique. Yet Monge should be considered the, true creator of descriptive geometry, for it was he who, elegantly and methodically converted the group of, graphical procedures used by practitioners into a, general uniform technique based on simple and rigorous geometric reasoning and methods. Within a few years this new discipline was being taught, in French scientific and technical schools and had, spread to several other Continental countries.
Author: MONGE Gaspard.
Title: Descriptive geometry. Lessons given at normal schools, Year 3 of the Republic.?.
Edition: ?Paris, Baudoin, Year VII (1798/1799). In-4 of VII-[1]-132p., 24/ 25 pl.,
Subject: Important Gaspard MONGE Descriptive geometry 1799 Original edition In-4 24 plates 67534093