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Four Female Professors Of The University...
the construction of certain beautiful geometrical problems , of which , in this book , we find the solution .
truths the idea In , results are this which collected chef of are d the ' ceuv indispensable and labors re , subjected of which of the to we to most a a have knowled rigid Illustrious given metho ge but of d all mathematics a mathematicians very that imperfect series , all of ,
of Robervalle Newton , and of D of escar Fermat tes , of — Leibnitz all the discoveries , of Varignon published , of Huyg in hens scien , of
tific journals , and deposited among the Acts of the Academies . It may be regarded as the best introduction to the works of of Euler Sciences . On
in the Paris 6 th December wrote" this , 1749 book , the contains commission an entire of the anal Academy ysis of Descartes , and of all the , discoveries made up to the present day in differential d
and integral calculus , the reduction of these discoveries , spreaover so many works of modern geometricians and explained methods by so almost many
different methods by their different authors , to always dcl uniform earness , g d ive precision proofs of rei the throug greatest hout art this and work intelli . g In ence no
orer , gn language idlassist have students Analytical of the Institutes analtical yet sciences appeared . We which regard can them so y
as rap the y most complete treatise and the best written work that exists with one on this of us the when subject members we , and say that we of the believe it is academy worth that y of the enclo its academy approval sing the will . " above M not . Monti certificate disagree gny ,
to Agnesi , wrote as follows , "I have great , pleasure in making known nothing to my country has hitherto so useful been a published work , one save so long imperfect needed , fragments and of which , not
more treatises excepting clearl published UAnal more yse in methodicall Demontree England . , written I of know Father than no Reynaud work more Anal , and extensive tical the late In- , y your y
stitutions . y Individuals , who know how to develop ideas in all their extension with such order and elegance as reign throughout your
Institutes are sharers in the glories of their originators . " In the same year , before the same Academy , Fontenelle said ,
" this is the best work that has ever appeared of the kind : Mdlle . Agnesi would have been elected member of the Academy if the laws
of The the Institute celebrated permitted mathematician the admission Bossut of who women translated . " the second
part of the Institutes , declared " that , the principles of integral and differential calculus are explained so clearly and precisely that
this work is admirably calculated to guide such students as desire to acquire the knowledge necessary for the study of mechanics and
h celebrated ydrodynamics professors . " Agnesi of the was European held in universities high repute . In by a the philoso most
phical age like the eighteenth century , when even the Princes of EuropeFrederick of . PrussiaJoseph II of AustriaPietro
Leo-, ,, , poldo of Tuscany , had enrolled themselves in the list of thinkers , or
had become their patrons , it was not strange to encounter a philoso-
378 Gallery Oe Illustrious Italian Women...
378 _GALLERY OE ILLUSTRIOUS ITALIAN WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/18/
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