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  1. The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)
  2. Girard Desargues: Bourgeois de Lyon, mathematicien, architecte (French Edition) by Marcel Chaboud, 1996
  3. Girard Desargues and Projective Geometry: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Dean Swinford, 2001
  4. Girard Desargues: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Judson Knight, 2001
  5. MANIERE UNIVERSELLE DE MR. DESARGUES, POUR PRATIQUER LA PERSPECTIVE PAR PETIT-PIED, COMME LE GEOMETRAL. ENSEMBLE LE PLACES ET PROPORTIONS DES FORTES & FOIBLES TOUCHES, TEINTES, OU COULEURS by Abraham (1602-1676); Girard Desargues (1593-1661) Bosse, 1648-01-01
  6. Desargues and his strange theorum by Nathan Altshiller-Court, 1954
  7. INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRAIC GROUPS by MEINOLF (INSTITUT GIRARD DESARGUES, UNIVERSITE LYON, FRANC GECK, 2004

1. Desargues
Girard Desargues. Born 21 Feb 1591 in Lyon, France Died Sept 1661 inLyon, France. Little is known about Girard Desargues personal life.
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Died: Sept 1661 in Lyon, France
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Little is known about Girard Desargues ' personal life. His family (on both his mother's and his father's side) had been very rich for several generations and had supplied lawyers and judges to the Parlement in Paris as well as to that in Lyon (then the second most important city in France). Desargues seems to have made several extended visits to Paris in connection with a lawsuit for the recovery of a huge debt. Despite this loss, the family still owned several large houses in Lyon, a manor house (and its estate) at the nearby village of Vourles, and a small chateau surrounded by the best vineyards in the vicinity. It is thus clear that Desargues had every opportunity of acquiring a good education, could afford to buy what books he chose, and had leisure to indulge in whatever pursuits he might enjoy. In his later years, these seem to have included designing an elaborate spiral staircase, and an ingenious new form of pump, but the most important of Desargues' interests was Geometry. He invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called 'projective' or 'modern' geometry. As a mathematician he was very good indeed: highly original and completely rigorous. He is, however, far from lucid in his mathematical style. When in Paris, Desargues became part of the mathematical circle surrounding Marin

2. Poster Of Desargues
Girard Desargues. lived from 1591 to 1661. Desargues was a founder of projectivegeometry. His work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.
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Girard Desargues lived from 1591 to 1661 Desargues was a founder of projective geometry. His work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective. Find out more at
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3. Girard Desargues
Girard Desargues. 15911661. Little is known about Girard Desargues personal life. It is known that his family had been very rich
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Little is known about Girard Desargues' personal life. It is known that his family had been very rich for several generations, and had supplied lawyers and judges to the Parlements in Paris and Lyon. It is thus clear that Desargues had every opportunity of acquiring a good education, could afford to buy what books he chose, and had leisure to indulge in whatever pursuits he might enjoy. In his later years, these seem to have included designing an elaborate spiral staircase, and an ingenious new form of pump, but the most important of Desargues' interests was geometry. When in Paris, Desargues became part of the mathematical circle surrounding Mersenne, including Descartes and Pascal. It was probably for this limited readership of friends that Desargues prepared his mathematical works, and had them printed. Desargues wrote on "practical" subjects such as perspective, the cutting of stones for use in building, and sundials. His writings are, however, dense in content and theoretical in their approach to the subjects concerned. There is none of the wordy and elementary step-by-step explanation which one finds in texts that are truly addressed to artisans. Desargues' most important work is the one in which he invented projective geometry. Only one copy is now known to survive. The book is short, but very dense. It begins with pencils of lines and ranges of points on a line, considers involutions of 6 points, gives a rigorous treatment of cases involving "infinite" distances, and then moves on to conics, showing that they can be discussed in terms of properties that are invariant under projection. Desargues' famous "perspective theorem" was first published in 1648 in a work on perspective by Abraham Bosse.

4. Girard Desargues
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    7. LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DU DIX-SEPTIEMISTE
    Translate this page **desargues girard, Œuvres de Desargues réunies et analysées par Poudra, Paris,1864, 2 vol. L’un des quatre grands mathématiciens du XVII e siècle.
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    , voir ci-dessous Théâtre du XVII e Siècle . Pour mémoire. DANIEL Gabriel Voyage du monde de Descartes , Paris, 1690, qui n'a jamais été étudié sérieusement. DASSOUCY Charles Les aventures de M. Dassoucy , publiées dans Les libertins du XVII e siècle , I, éd. Jacques Prévot, Pléiade, Gallimard, Paris, 1998. DE BEAUNE Florimond , éd. P. Costabel et B. Barbiche, Vrin, Paris, 1975. Beau traité de géométrie, mais réservé aux amateurs. De Beaune a aussi commenté la Géométrie de Descartes. DESARGUES Girard e siècle. René Taton a publié son Brouillon Projet avec une excellente introduction ( , Vrin, 1981). On attend une édition mise à jour prochainement. Il est vrai que sa lecture demande un petit effort, mais on se sent tellement mieux quand on a compris le théorème de Pappus... Il existe une traduction anglaise, avec introduction : FIELD J. V. et GRAY J.J., The geometrical work of Girard Desargues , New York, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1987.

    8. LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DU DIX-SEPTIEMISTE
    Translate this page Christine. desargues girard. DHOMBRES TATON René, L’Œuvre mathématiquede Girard Desargues, Vrin, Paris, 1981 (2 e éd.). Contient le
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    La bibliothèque du dix-septiémiste Version 2002 (mise à jour le 14 janvier 2004) DEUXIÈME PARTIE : OUVRAGES CRITIQUES V. Histoire des idées (suite) Généralités Sciences Philosophie Religion ... Auteurs étrangers 9. Auteurs français. Arnauld Antoine Textes philosophiques par Denis Moreau, Paris, aux Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694) philosophe, écrivain, théologien Chroniques de Port-Royal JACQUES Emile, LAPORTE Jean, La Doctrine de Port-Royal : les Vérités de la Grâce , P.U.F., Paris, 1923, 456 p. Indispensable pour une compréhension profonde de la théologie de Port-Royal. LAPORTE Jean, La Doctrine de Port-Royal : la Morale , 2 vol., Vrin, Paris, 1951-1952. Suite du précédent. LE GUERN Michel, Pascal et Arnauld , Paris, Champion, 2003. La seule synthèse sur la question, mais très discutable sur de nombreux points. MOREAU Denis, Deux cartésiens. La polémique Arnauld-Malebranche , Vrin, Paris, 1999. PARIENTE Jean-Claude (éd.), Antoine Arnauld. Philosophie du langage et de la connaissance , Vrin, Paris, 1995. Recueil difficile, mais riche.

    9. Desargues
    Girard Desargues. Born 21 Feb 1591 in Lyon, France Died Sept 1661 inLyon, France. Girard Desargues was a founder of projective geometry.
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    (Alphabetically) Next Welcome page Girard Desargues was a founder of projective geometry. His work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective. Little is known about Desargues' personal life. His family (on both his mother's and his father's side) had been very rich for several generations and had supplied lawyers and judges to the Parlement in Paris as well as to that in Lyon (then the second most important city in France). Desargues seems to have made several extended visits to Paris in connection with a lawsuit for the recovery of a huge debt. Despite this loss, the family still owned several large houses in Lyon, a manor house (and its estate) at the nearby village of Vourles, and a small chateau surrounded by the best vineyards in the vicinity. It is thus clear that Desargues had every opportunity of acquiring a good education, could afford to buy what books he chose, and had leisure to indulge in whatever pursuits he might enjoy. In his later years, these seem to have included designing an elaborate spiral staircase, and an ingenious new form of pump, but the most important of Desargues' interests was Geometry. He invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called 'projective' or 'modern' geometry. As a mathematician he was very good indeed: highly original and completely rigorous. He is, however, far from lucid in his mathematical style.

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    11. Plan Projectif
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    (CO) coupe (PD) en A et (DO) coupe (PC) en B. Il existe un nombre k k , soit 2 k O est le barycentre de (P, 2 k ) et (J, 2). Comme J est milieu de [CD], le donc k formule 1 O est le barycentre de (P, 2 k ) ; (C, 1) et (D, 1). k ) et (D, 1) et aussi que B est le barycentre partiel de (P, 2 k ) et (C, 1), donc 2 k et 2 k formules 2 et 3 formules 2 et 3 , on trouve (2 k et (2 k k formule 2, on trouve (2 k k D est le barycentre de (A, 2 k + 1) et (P, -2 k La formule vectorielle de Leibniz ( a + b a b k k formule 1 on obtient : k : O est le barycentre de (C, 1) et (A, 2 k Des calculs similaires avec la formule 3 k k ; C est le barycentre de (B, 2 k + 1) et (P, -2 k) k : O est le barycentre de (D, 1) et (B, 2 k formule 1 on trouve - (2 k k k O est le barycentre de (A, 2

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    desargues girard Desargues (1591-1661) PostScript-Versionzum Ausdruck. . affine Form Liegen die Dreiecke ABC und
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    Liegen die Dreiecke ABC und A'B'C' zentral (d.h.: laufen die drei Geraden A'A B'B und C'C durch einen Punkt - das so genannte Zentrum - hier mit Z bezeichnet) und sind die Seiten AB A'B' bzw. AC A'C' jeweils parallel, so sind auch BC und B'C' parallel. Beweis: Das Dreieck A'B'C' entsteht unter diesen Voraussetzungen als Bild von ABC unter der Streckung mit Zentrum Z , die A auf A' abbildet.] Please enable Java for an interactive construction (with Cinderella). Allgemeiner gilt (projektive Form):
    Liegen zwei Dreiecke ABC und A'B'C' zentral, so liegen sie auch axial
    Die Schnittpunkte AB A'B' BC B'C' und CA C'A' liegen auf einer Geraden: der Achse [zum Beweis
    Die Dreiecke liegen in parallelen Ebenen, die Achse ist Fluchtgerade dieser Ebenen.
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    Liegen zwei Dreiecke axial, so liegen sie auch zentral, oder die Verbindungsgeraden entsprechender Ecken sind parallel. erstellt von M. Stroppel

    15. Desargues, Girard (1593-1662) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biogr
    desargues, girard (15931662), This entry contributed by Margherita Barile.French mathematician, considered as the founder of projective geometry.
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    Desargues, Girard (1593-1662)

    This entry contributed by Margherita Barile French mathematician, considered as the founder of projective geometry There seems not to be much reliable information on his life and work, most of what we know comes from indirect sources. Desargues used to write down his ideas in form of brief sketches, none of which was intended for publication, and many of which went lost. He made no effort to make them understandable to potential readers: he used "microscopic characters" (Poudra 1864), an exceedingly concise style, and expressed himself in a language of his own. His only extensive work, , has survived through a transcription by Philippe de la Hire , who felt compelled to add a glossary of terms. There we learn that "navel" and "burning point" mean "focus," that "roll" denotes a cylindric or conic solid, whereas two different words, "column" and "horn," are used for the cylindric and the conic surface. The conic sections themselves are referred to as "the border of a roll cut." Other manuscripts were edited by Abraham Bosse, a student of Desargues who was also a sculptor, and profited from his teacher's attention towards the applications of geometry to art and architecture. Desargues wrote treatises on perspective, sundials, on the cutting of stones, on the mechanical applications of epicycloids, and he also designed buildings. He probably contributed to the construction of the dam in La Rochelle, by order of Cardinal Richelieu, with whom he was familiar, as we are told by

    16. Mathematiques Lyon 1 : Institut Girard Desargues (IGD)
    Th¨mes de recherche th©orie des repr©sentations, analyse, g©om©trie, logique. Universit© Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5028.
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    18. Desargues
    Founder of projective geometry, his work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.
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    Born: 21 Feb 1591 in Lyon, France
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    Little is known about Girard Desargues ' personal life. His family (on both his mother's and his father's side) had been very rich for several generations and had supplied lawyers and judges to the Parlement in Paris as well as to that in Lyon (then the second most important city in France). Desargues seems to have made several extended visits to Paris in connection with a lawsuit for the recovery of a huge debt. Despite this loss, the family still owned several large houses in Lyon, a manor house (and its estate) at the nearby village of Vourles, and a small chateau surrounded by the best vineyards in the vicinity. It is thus clear that Desargues had every opportunity of acquiring a good education, could afford to buy what books he chose, and had leisure to indulge in whatever pursuits he might enjoy. In his later years, these seem to have included designing an elaborate spiral staircase, and an ingenious new form of pump, but the most important of Desargues' interests was Geometry. He invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called 'projective' or 'modern' geometry. As a mathematician he was very good indeed: highly original and completely rigorous. He is, however, far from lucid in his mathematical style. When in Paris, Desargues became part of the mathematical circle surrounding Marin

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    Biography of girard desargues (15911661) girard desargues. Born 21 Feb 1591 in Lyon, France Little is known about girard desargues' personal life. His family (on both his mother's and his
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    Died: Sept 1661 in Lyon, France
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    Little is known about Girard Desargues ' personal life. His family (on both his mother's and his father's side) had been very rich for several generations and had supplied lawyers and judges to the Parlement in Paris as well as to that in Lyon (then the second most important city in France). Desargues seems to have made several extended visits to Paris in connection with a lawsuit for the recovery of a huge debt. Despite this loss, the family still owned several large houses in Lyon, a manor house (and its estate) at the nearby village of Vourles, and a small chateau surrounded by the best vineyards in the vicinity. It is thus clear that Desargues had every opportunity of acquiring a good education, could afford to buy what books he chose, and had leisure to indulge in whatever pursuits he might enjoy. In his later years, these seem to have included designing an elaborate spiral staircase, and an ingenious new form of pump, but the most important of Desargues' interests was Geometry. He invented a new, non-Greek way of doing geometry, now called 'projective' or 'modern' geometry. As a mathematician he was very good indeed: highly original and completely rigorous. He is, however, far from lucid in his mathematical style. When in Paris, Desargues became part of the mathematical circle surrounding Marin

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    Cite this article. girard desargues. born February 21, 1591, Lyon, France MLA style " girard desargues." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
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