“I wish to acknowledge that I owe the little that I have discovered on this subject to his writings.”
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Gérard Desargues
Girard Desargues was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues's theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are named in his honour.
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science · French mathematician and engineer (1591–1661) · mathematician · architect · engineer · military personnel · also Gérard Desargues, Girard Desargues, Gaspard Desargues, Gerard Desargues, Jerar Dezarq, Desargues
Born 21 February 1591 · Died 9 October 1661 · Q152817
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And the 1864 compilation remains in print
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“The Geometry of Kepler and Newton,”
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Died 1661-10-09.
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“Rough draft for an essay on the results of taking plane sections of a cone”
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1591· 1 entry
Born 1591-02-21.
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