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Mathematical Treasure: Robert Steell’s Treatise of Conic Sections
A Treatise of [or on] Conic Sections was a popular title among British mathematics textbooks of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. However, Robert Steell’s book of 1723 is unique in that it is one of the first mathematics books written and published in Ireland. Little is known of the author other than that he was a native of Dublin and he died in 1726; Rod Gow has compiled the known information.
Sample pages from this book:
A full digitization of the copy owned by the British Library is available from GoogleBooks.
A reprint edition appeared in London in 1745.
A full digitization of the copy owned by the University of Michigan can be found in the Internet Archive.
Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University), "Mathematical Treasure: Robert Steell’s Treatise of Conic Sections," Convergence (January 2024)
