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Four Female Professors Of The University...
year , entitled Isiiiuzioni Analiiiche _? Milan , 1749 , two volumes in quarto .
The & st volume expounds all the operations of the analysis of iinite quantities . Next is developed the art of applying * these rules
to the solution of geometrical problems , determinate or indeterminate , _& £ the second and of superior degrees , rising in order from one to the
other ; the method for constructing their final equations , and for extracting the roots . The author then proceeds from the method of
maxima and minima to the method of tangents , the discovery of points of contrary flexure and of cusps . The analysis of infinitesimals
forms the subject of the second volume , in which are expounded the principles of the differential calculus , for the several orders of
infinitely small quantities , and the use of these principles is shewn in their application to the investigation of tangentsof maxima and
, mi ? iima , of points of contrary flexure and cusps , of evolutes , and of radii of curvature . 1
The integral calculus is next treated of , commencingwith the methods by means of which differential functions of the first order
of a single variable quantity- are reduced to algebraical formulse or to quadratures of the circle or of the hyperbola . The principles of
the logarithmic calculus are given , the method of indeterminate coefficients is expounded , and the art of employing transformations in
order that the radical quantities may disappear . The use of series is shewn in order to find by approximation ,
the integrals of differential quantities of the same kind ; i . e . _^ composed of a single variable , when they are embarrassed by fractions
and radicals . After explaining * the rules , the art of applying them to the rectification of curves , the quadrature of the spaces they
enclose , to the cubature of solids , are successively dwelt upon . Passing * to the exponential calculus , the different ways are explained
by which it is possible to integrate differential functions , intermixed with _logarithmic quantities , or with quantities elevated to
variable powers : the manner of constructing the curves expressed by logarithmic and exponential equations , is given ; and the use and
application of this calculus is demonstrated by elegant solutions of various problems .
In the last part of this work , rules in the inverse method of tangents are explained , and those which lead to the integration
and to the construction of differential equations with two variable quantities . It is shewn by what means , and in what cases , it is
possible to arrive at the separation of variables . The use of this method is shewn in the solution of a number of problems , dependent
on the inverse method of tangents . The author then passes to the reduction of those equations which belong to a higher order .
The manner of reducing many general formulae , each one of which represents an infinity of these equations , is next treated of ; also the
methods employed by several geometricians , for reducing certain particular equations of the same kind , on which operation depends
vol . i . 2 d
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_GALLEftY OF ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN . 377
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/17/
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