The concept of involution in Girard Desargues' \textit{Brouillon project}

DOI10.1007/S00407-017-0196-5MaRDI QIDQ680593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marie Anglade, Jean-Yves Briend

Publication date 23 January 2018

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05494

zbMATH Keywords

involution\textit{Brouillon project}

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03)

Abstract: Nous tentons dans cet article de proposer une th`ese coh'erente concernant la formation de la notion d'involution dans le Brouillon Project de Desargues. Pour cela, nous donnons une analyse d'etaill'ee des dix premi`eres pages dudit Brouillon, comprenant les d'eveloppements de cas particuliers qui aident `a comprendre l'intention de Desargues. Nous mettons cette analyse en regard de la lecture qu'en fait Jean de Beaugrand et que l'on trouve dans les Advis Charitables. The purpose of this article is to propose a coherent thesis on how Girard Desargues arrived at the notion of involution in his Brouillon Project of 1639. To this purpose we give a detailed analysis of the ten first pages of the Brouillon, including developments of particular cases which help to understand the goal of Desargues, as well as to clarify the links between the notion of involution and that of harmonic division. We compare the conclusions of this analysis with the very critical reading Jean de Beaugrand made of the Brouillon Project in the Advis Charitables of 1640.

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