AN ANALYTICK TREATISE OF CONICK SECTIONS, AND THEIR USE FOR RESOLVING OF EQUATIONS IN DETERMINATE AND INDETERMINATE PROBLEMS.
London: printed for J. Senex, in Fleetstreet; W. Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row; W. and J. Innys, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and J. Osborn, in Lombard-Street, 1723. First Edition. Quarto, vii, [1], 351 [1] pages; G-; bound in full contemporary full diced calf, front board detached but present; some rubbing and wear to binding; ink name to front pastedown, ink name to ffep dated 1757, red ink name stamp to ffep; with 33 folding plates of conic sections featuring 285 figures.; scarce; SP consignment; shelved case 10.
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NOTES
Edmund Stone (c. 1700-c. 1768) was an autodidact mathematician from Scotland in the 18th century about whom practically nothing is known.;
From the preface: "This work is divided into Ten Books, whereof the first Three treat separately of the Parabola, Ellipsis, and Hyperbola...In the Fourth Book...lays down his Propositions more general than in the Three former Books...The Fifth Book contains the Comparison of the Conick Sections, and their Segments with each other...Sixth Book, Of the Conick Sections consider'd in the Solid...The Seventh Book is of Geometrick Loci...The Eighth Book is of Indeterminate Problems...The Ninth Book is of the Construction of Equations...Lastly, the Tenth Book of Determinate Problems is a farther Use of the Loci in solving them...Now because we have nothing in English on this Subject [Newton's Theorem for Finding the Unciae] but what is lame and imperfect, and there are several Persons who would be desirous of reading this Treatise in English, I therefore present them with it";