- CA ON00239 F1424-1033
- Item
- [18--]
Part of Shortt-Haydon collection
Item is an electro-steel engraving of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, born 1736 and died 1813, Italian Enlightenment Era mathmetician and astronomer. He made great contributions to the areas of analysis, number theory, and classical and celestial mechanics. Engraved by Robert Hart from a bust in the Library of the Institute of France under the superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Published by Charles Knight (Pall Mall East).