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Scientist, engineer, writer, translator, in London. Father of engineer Thomas Desaguliers (1721-80).
Born: 1683
Died: 1744
Gender: Male
Jacques Ozanam
Cursus Mathematicus: Or, A Compleat Course Of The Mathematicks. In Five Volumes. Vol. I. Contains a short Treatise of Algebra, and The Elements of Euclid. Vol. II. Arithmetic and Trigonometry, with correct Tables of Logarithms, Sines and Tangents. Vol. III. Geometry and Fortification. Vol. IV. Mechanics, and Perspective. Vol. V. Geography and Dialling. The whole Illustrated with near 200 Copper Plates. Written in French by Monsieur Ozanam, Professor of the Mathematicks at Paris. Now done into English, with Additions and Corrections by Several Hands. - London:: [1712]
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Nicolas Gauger
Fires Improved: Or, A New Method Of Building Chimnies, So as to prevent their Smoking. In Which A Small Fire, shall warm a Room much better than a Large One made the Common Way. And the Method of altering such Chimnies as are already Built, so that they shall perform the same Effects. By Monsieur Gauger. Made English from the French Original. By J. T. Desaguliers, L.L.D. and F.R.S. The Second Edition, With an Appendix, Containing several farther Improvements made by the Translator and Others. - London:: 1736. Price 4 s.
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