[HM] Leibniz, Lagrange, Hudde and Moebius

Subject: [HM] Leibniz, Lagrange, Hudde and Moebius
From: Emili Bifet (bifet@attglobal.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 03:37:24 EST

Dear List Readers,

I strongly believe that direct experience is our best defense against
stereotypes, propaganda, and empty words. In this spirit, here follow
some explicit links to BnF that I hope may be useful:

(Users of Ms I. Explorer may want to read

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/3/09.ASP

before attempting to download PDF files.)

0) General Catalog

http://catalognum2.bnf.fr/html/i-frames.htm

1) Leibniz's letter to Huygens of September 8, 1679,

http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/get_page.exe?F=PDF&O=21147&E=234&N=9&CD=1

(PDF file, 9 pages, 452K, French;)

from G.W. Leibniz Mathematische Schriften II,

http://catalognum2.bnf.fr/html/i-search?TABLE=wnum&IDXCODE1=COT&IDXARG1=n021147&IDXTYPE1=W

ed. C.I. Gerhardt;

2) Lec,ons e/le/mentaires sur les Mathe/matiques donne/es a\ l'E/cole
Normale en 1795, par J.-L. Lagrange

http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/get_page.exe?F=PDF&O=21109&E=191&N=106&CD=1

(PDF file, 106 pages, 3996K, French)

from the 7th volume of Oeuvres, ed. J.-A. Serret,

http://catalognum2.bnf.fr/html/i-search?TABLE=wnum&IDXCODE1=COT&IDXARG1=n021109&IDXTYPE1=W

Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1877;

3) Johannis Huddenii Epistolae duae, quarum altera de aequationum
reductione, altera de maximis et minimis agit

http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/get_page.exe?F=PDF&O=57482&E=417&N=116&CD=1

(PDF file, 116 pages, 5372K, Latin) from

http://catalognum2.bnf.fr/html/i-search?TABLE=wnum&IDXCODE1=COT&IDXARG1=n057482&IDXTYPE1=W

4) Moebius' Der barycentrische Calcul

http://catalognum2.bnf.fr/html/i-search?TABLE=wnum&IDXCODE1=TIT&IDXARG1=Der+barycentrische+Calcul&IDXTYPE1=W

 
Best wishes,
Emili Bifet

PS Explicit links, as the ones above, save effort and facilitate direct
experience. My hope is that it will soon become standard for writers to
provide them, whenever possible. Perhaps the following remarks may be
helpful.
 
Every document in the Library is identified by a number O and consists
of images indexed by the parameter E. (Note that, in some cases, an
image may contain more than one page.) For example, the Leibniz document
above is identified by O=21147, and the image that contains the 17th
page on the second volume has index E=234. Since we are interested in
downloading pages 17-25, that is 9=25-17+1 images altogether, we put
N=9. The other parameters simply indicate that we are requesting PDF
format (F=PDF) not to be displayed on the browser (CD=1.) This is how we
arrive at
the expression:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/get_page.exe?F=PDF&O=21147&E=234&N=9&CD=1

The parameter O=21147 appears on the general catalog:

"Identifiant : N021147. Numerise en mode image."

The index E, of a given image, is easy to obtain from a complete
downloaded copy of the document.

In any event, they can both be obtained from the browser's History
Tool/Bar.

For more information, see the JavaScript code on the different pages ...

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