Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática (Nov 2020)

A REFERENCE TEXT OF JOSÉ ANASTÁCIO DA CUNHA: BALISTIQUE ARITHMETIQUE, BY PIERRE-LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS

  • Luis Saraiva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.47976/RBHM2007vn06

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At the beginning of 2005, Maria do Céu Silva, a researcher at the Oporto University Mathematics Centre, came across six unpublished manuscripts by the Portuguese mathematician José Anastácio da Cunha (1744-1787) in the Braga District Archive. A little later a seventh manuscript was discovered in the same archive by Maria Elfrida Ralha, a University of Minho researcher.

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