The great work that founded analytical geometry. Included here is the original French text, Descartes’ own diagrams, together with the definitive Smith-Latham translation. "The greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences."— John Stuart Mill.
This book contains a facsimile of the original version which runs nearly page for page with the English version. This is a true mathematical masterpiece. This was the supposed beginning of analytical Geometry(although it is now known that this was not true). It's a great book to work through that should be accessable to a high school student with some Geometry background. A Fantastic Book!
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