"Elementos de Matematica" (Elements of Mathematics), by Benito Bails (1730-1797), Spanish architect and mathematician of The Enlightenment. Page with conic section calculations. Volume III, which is about elements of conic sections, elements of infinitesimal calculus and spherical trigonometry. Published in Madrid, 1779.

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