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- Title
ESTUDIO DE LA GEOMETRÍA SUPERIOR EN EL CURSO MILITAR DE MATHEMATICAS (1753-1756) DE PEDRO PADILLA.
- Authors
BLANCO, Mónica
- Abstract
Toward the end of 1750, an Academy of Mathematics was established at the Royal Guards Barracks in Madrid and was ruled by Pedro Padilla (1724-1807?) until it was dissolved in 1760. In 1753, Padilla authored and published his Military Course of Mathematics (1753-1756) for the specific use by this Academy. Of the twenty mathematical treatises that Padilla originally intended to develop, only the first five would be published in the end (in four volumes). The fourth treatise, On higher geometry, or geometry of curves (1756), can be regarded as the earliest educational book on analytic geometry published in Spain. In this treatise Padilla dealt with the geometrical construction of equations, conic sections and the resolution of a wide variety of geometrical problems. The analysis of this treatise contributes evidences of the study of analytical geometry in 18th-century Spain.
- Subjects
SPAIN; MADRID (Spain); ANALYTIC geometry; CONIC sections; GEOMETRICAL constructions; MATHEMATICS; GEOMETRY
- Publication
Cuadernos Dieciochistas, 2021, Vol 22, p13
- ISSN
1576-7914
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14201/cuadieci2021221348