Autograph Letter Signed ('L. Lalanne') to 'Monsieur l'abbé Moigno', ed. "Cosmos".
Author:
Léon Lalanne [Léon Louis Chrétien Lalanne] (1811-1892), French engineer and mathematician [François Napoléon Marie Moigno [Abbé Moigno] (1804-1884), French mathematician]
Publication details:
28 July 1863; on embossed letterhead 'L. L.'.
£85.00
SKU: 6491
12mo, 1 p, 7 lines. Good, with the address on the verso of the second leaf of the bifolium, which also carries the broken red wafer. Written in French. An interesting communication between two of the leading lights of French nineteenth-century mathematics. Lalanne describes Moigno as 'toujours le juge bienveillant et aimable que je connais depuis si longtemps'.