L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume-François-Antoine de Analyse... Lot 1070

L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume-François-Antoine de Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes. Seconde édition. Paris F. Montalant 1716 4to: xv-[1]-181-[1] pp. (sl. browned, pencil notes). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt spine (spine broken and partly missing). 2nd issue (1st: 1715) of the 2nd ed. (1st ed.: 1696) of the first complete treatise ever written on differential calculus, including the original publication of ideas by Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli. As such, this textbook by the French mathematician L'Hospital (1661-1704) is a mathematical milestone. On p. 145 he provides a technique to evaluate limits of indeterminate forms, the "L'Hospital's rule". Although the rule is attributed to him, the theorem was actually the work of Bernoulli. Engr. ill.: 11 folding plates. Ref. Macclesfield Library 1256. - Honeyman 2006 (1st ed.). Prov. Owner's vignette. - "Ponzio Vaglia" (handwritten note).