"The researches of Kepler and Desargues will serve to remind us that as the geometry of the Greeks was not capable of much further extension, mathematicians were now beginning to seek for new methods of investigation, and were extending the conceptions of geometry. The invention of analytical geometry and of the infinitesimal calculus temporarily diverted attention from pure geometry, but at the beginning of the last century there was a revival of interest in it, and since then it has been a favourite subject of study with many mathematicians."
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Girard Desargues
(21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician, architect and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of . , the , and the Desargues crater are named in his honour.
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