CARNOT Lazare Nicolas Marguerite (1753 - 1823) - Johann Karl Friedrich HAUFF (1766 - 1846 ) :
Reference : 53358
Frankfurt an Main, in der Jägerschen Buchhandlung, 1800, in-8°, (8)nn pp + LXIV pp + 110 pp + (2)(errata) + 2 folding plates with 15 ills. (complete). Bound in 19th c. red half roan, two label on spine, Marbled edges. Ex-library with stamps on title and cancellation stamp on first fly leaf. (Belgian War Ministry). Binding with some wear but still a good copy. Rare German translation of Carnot's work ''Réflexions sur la Métaphysique du Calcul Infinitésimal'' which appeared in 1797. This German translation carries an important introduction by the translator Hauff, a mathematician who ended his career as professor at the Flemish university of Ghendt. A first English translation of the Carnot text was published in Oxford as late as 1832 ( by W.B.Browell).