PRIVAT DE MOLIERES, Joseph. Traité synthétique des Lignes du I. & du II. genre ou Elémens de Géométrie dans l'Ordre de leur génération. Ces Lignes sont la Ligne Droite, le Cercle, l'Ellipse, la Parabole, & l'Hyperbole. 1741.

Joseph Privat de Molières (1676-1742), french physician and mathematician, raised to the rank of associé in the Academy in 1729 and became fellow of the Royal Society of London in the same year.
A major figure in the protracted struggle against the importation of Newtonian science into France, Privat de Molières devoted his career to developing and improving Cartesian physics.
Rare mathematical work from Privat de Molières, a resale from the first edition with only a new title page and the cartons described in the collation.