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THIS volume is divided into several parts. The first part deals with Huyghens's early writings (1645–6), and is preceded by an account of a manuscript by van Schooten which formed the basis of Huyghens's first mathematical studies. The writings in question deal, inter alia, with elementary geometrical considerations relating to the parabola and funicular polygons. The next portion consists of Huyghens's three books entitled “De iis quæ liquido supernatant”(1650), forming a collection of applications of the principle of Archimedes to floating bodies of simple shapes. A number of geometrical problems dated 1650 follow, and the volume concludes with the “Theoremata de quadratura hyperboles, ellipsis, et circuli ex dato portionum gravitatis centro”(1651). The volume is well got up, and forms an interesting contribution to the history of mathematics.
Œuvres complètes de Christian Huyghens publiées par la Société hollandaise des Sciences.
Vol. xi., Travaux mathématiques, 1645–1651. Pp. iv+369. (La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1908.)
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Œuvres complètes de Christian Huyghens publiées par la Société hollandaise des Sciences . Nature 80, 307 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080307c0
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