INVENTORY #1851
Two Excursions to the Ports of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in 1816, 1817, and 1818
DUPIN, Charles
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The title continues: "With a Description of the Breakwater at Plymouth and of the Caledonian Canal." Dupin was a noted mapmaker, and developed the first thematic map, outlining literacy in France geographically. As a mathematician, he also discovered conjugate tangents and the Dupin indicatrix. Includes a typed slip of "contents".
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- Publisher: Sir Richard Phillips and Co
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1819
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Fair
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
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viii, 108 p. 22 cm. A fold out map and a hand-coloured plate. Disbound. Some spots pp. 87-90. Text is in English, translated from the French.