CAMUS, (CHARLES-ETIENNE.LOUIS).

Cours de Mathématique. 1.-3. Partie. (1. Élémens D'Arithmétique - 2. Élémens de Géometrie, theorique et pratique. Quatrieme Edition - Élémens de Mechanique Statique. Tome I-II. Troisieme Edition). 4 vols.

Paris, Ballard Fils (Vol. I), Paris, De Prault (Vol.3-4), 1749-67. Large 8vo. Bound in 4 fine full mottled calf. Raised bands, richly gilt compartments, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper compartment. Top of spine to vol. one with wear. Volume one slightly different in binding. Stamps on titlepages. (4),IV (bound at end),472;VI,563,XXXII,(3);XX,396;VIII,442 pp. and 92 large folded engraved plates. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Camus main work. He joined Maupertouis, Clairaut and Lemonnier on the scientific expedition to Lapland in 1736, to determine the shape of the earth. "In 1730 he was named to the Academy of Architecture and became its secretary shortly thereafter. There he gave public lessons to aspiring architects as the Academy's professor of Geometry. These lessons later served as the basis of a "Course de mathematique"....In 1755, when Camus was also named the examiner for artillery schools, this "Course" became the standard work for artillery students." (Seymor Shapin in DSB).

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