Elements of Mathematics . to which is prefixed, The first principles of algebra . the third edition improved: with an addition of a New Treatise on Perspective.

MULLER, John.

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London, for J. Millan 1765. Octavo contemporary calf (rubbed and a bit worn at the tips, with a chipped ms paper label); xxxvi,312pp and 28 folding plates - 21 plates in the main work and seven in the section on perspective. Title a bit dusty or browned, light browning here and there but a rather good, quite fresh copy. This seems to be the definitive or best edition of this standard work. Muller was professor of fortifications at the Royal Military Academy and was a respected, though not remarkable, mathemetican. He was called the 'scholastic father' of the best engineers of later 18th century England (E.G.R. Taylor cites Boswell's Life of Johnson for this epithet).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elements of Mathematics . to which is prefixed, The first principles of algebra . the third edition improved: with an addition of a New Treatise on Perspective.
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: very good