| Back to . . . | In 1775, twenty-seven years after its first publication, the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris chose to translate the second volume of the Instituzioni into French. Why? Why would such famous French mathematicians as d'Alembert and Condorcet urge the Académie Royale des Sciences to undertake this painstaking work? |
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The first edition of Instituzioni had very little trigonometry. The French edition added the now standard trig formulas. Why? |
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Bernoullis still live in Basel, Switzerland. |
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