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LA CAILLE (Abbé Nicolas-Louis de). LEÇONS Élémentaires de Mathématiques. A Paris. 1778. - LA CAILLE (Abbé Nicolas-Louis de) LEÇONS Élémentaires de Mathématiques . Nouvelle édition, avec de nouveaux Éléments d'Algebre, de Géométrie, de Trigonométrie rectiligne & sphérique, de Sections coniques, de plusieurs autres Courbes, de Calcul Différentiel & de Calcul Intégral. Par M. l'Abbé Marie, de la Maison & Société de Sorbonne, Sous-Précepteur de Monseigneur le Duc d'Angoulême, Professeur de Mathématiques au Collège Mazarin. A Paris: Chez la Veuve Desaint, Libraire, rue du Foin S. Jacques, 1778. xiv, 528 pp., 11 grav.; 205 mm. Nicolas-Louis de La Caille (Rumigny, 1713; Paris, 1762), French astronomer and mathematician, was a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences and the academies of St. Petersburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Göttingen, and the Institute of Bologna, as well as a professor of mathematics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris. He is best known for his astronomical observation campaigns in the southern hemisphere, notably the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope (1750–1754), where he cataloged about ten thousand stars and named fourteen constellations. The ”Leçons élémentaires de mathématiques, ” whose first editions date back to 1741–1743, was one of the reference textbooks for mathematics education in France throughout the 18th century. This new, greatly expanded edition was revised and enlarged by Abbé Marie (Maximilien Marie, mathematics professor at the Collège Mazarin and sub-preceptor to the Duke of Angoulême), who added new elements of algebra, geometry, rectilinear and spherical trigonometry, conic sections, other curves, differential calculus, and integral calculus. Includes 11 fold-out illustrations of mathematical diagrams. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate