Mathematical Treasures - Christiaan Huygens' De Circuli Magnitudine Inventa
Author(s):
Frank J. Swetz and Victor J. Katz
This is the first page of De Circuli Magnitudine Inventa (On Finding the Magnitude of the Circle) (1654) by Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). In this work, Huygens considered various ways to determine the accurate measurement of a circle.