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ALL mathematicians and others interested in the history of science will welcome this mathematical classic, both from the point of view of the personal interest in Monge himself, and also because of the occasion on which this book was originally written. The primary object of the book was purely utilitarian, namely, to make French industry independent of foreign enterprise, by “directing national education towards the knowledge of matters requiring exactness,” and giving French artificers a greater command over materials and machines. Monge's object was to give a new aspect to French education, but he enriched mathematics with one of its classics.
Géométrie descriptive.
Gaspard
Monge
. Augmentée d'une théorie des ombres et de la perspective, extraite des papiers de l'auteur par Barnabé Brisson. (Les Maîtres de la Pensée scientifique.) Vol. 1. Pp. xvi + 144. Vol. 2. Pp. 138. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1922.) 2 vols., 6 francs.
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Géométrie descriptive. Nature 113, 456 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113456d0
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