Henry Vuibert

"Dodécaèdre régulier de 3e espèce à faces étoilées" (likely a great icosahedron) from Vuibert's Les Anaglyphes geometriques, meant to be viewed with what are now called 3-D glasses

Désiré-Henry Vuibert (21 August 1857 – 27 November 1945) was a French mathematician and publisher of technical books and journals, and founder of the French publishing house Vuibert [fr].[1][2] He was a publisher of the same class as Louis Hachette and Pierre Larousse, and is said to have begun his company in 1876.[3]: 780 

His book Les Anaglyphes geometriques described "Vuibert's principle of anaglyphic vision" based on a "procedure invented by Louis Ducos du Houron, which consisted in printing, in superimposition, pairs of stereoscopic views, taken in complementary colors".[4] This book and the concepts therein are said to have "inspired Marcel Duchamp's interest in anaglyphs".[5] Les Anaglyphes geometriques "set the standard" for representation of 3D in two dimensions and offered a "grand tour of shape" that influenced both artists and mathematicians alike.[6]

Also, according to one account, it was Vuibert, not Eutaris, who first worked out what is now called a Taylor circle.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Henry Vuibert (1857-1945)". data.bnf.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  2. ^ "Editions Vuibert". Babelio (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-12-05. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  3. ^ Mollier, Jean-Yves (2007). "ÉDITER AU XIX e SIÈCLE". Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France. 107 (4): 771–790. ISSN 0035-2411. JSTOR 23013926.
  4. ^ Clair, Jean (September 1978). "Opticeries". October. 5: 101–112. doi:10.2307/778648. JSTOR 778648.
  5. ^ Rare Books, Blackwell's. "Twitter - 1172811942219702274". Twitter/X. Archived from the original on 2019-09-14. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  6. ^ Witt, Andrew (2022-01-11). Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture. MIT Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-262-54300-2.
  7. ^ "REPONSES". L'Intermédiaire des mathématiciens (in French). II: 166. 1895 – via Texas Tech University Libraries.

External links

  • "Vuibert, H. (Henry), 1857". The Online Books Page. Retrieved 2024-03-22.


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