📚 Plane Curves

Books with plane curves on their catalogue record, first published between 1687 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject plane curves in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 239 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica	Sir Isaac Newton	1687	104
	A treatise on conic sections	George Salmon	1850	16
	A treatise on the higher plane curves	George Salmon	1852	12
	Die ebenen Curven dritter Ordnung	Heinrich Durège	1871	8
	Practical geometry for the architect, engineer, surveyor and mechanic	E. Wyndham Tarn	1871	7
	The elementary differential geometry of plane curves	R. H. Fowler	1920	7
	An elementary treatise on curve tracing	Frost, Percival	1872	6
	A book of curves	E. H. Lockwood	1961	5
	Einleitung in eine geometrische Theorie der ebenen Curven	Luigi Cremona	1865	4
	Curve tracing in Cartesian coordinates	William Woolsey Johnson	1884	4
	Constructive geometry of plane curves	T. H. Eagles	1885	4
	On the arrangement of the real branches of plane algebraic curves	Virginia Ragsdale	1906	4
	Spezielle algebraische und transzendente ebene kurven	Gino Loria	1910	4
	A book of curves	Edward Harrington Lockwood	1961	4
	Singularities of Plane Curves	Eduardo Casas-Alvero	2000	4
	The Three First Sections And Part Of The Seventh Section Of Newton's Principia	John Conduitt	1850	3
	The mathematical works of Isaac Barrow	Isaac Barrow	1860	3
	Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane	Luigi Cremona	1862	3
	Bibliographie der höheren algebraischen kurven für den zeitabschnitt von 1890-1904	Heinrich Wieleitner	1905	3
	Archimedis opera omnia cum commentariis Eutocii	Archimedes	1910	3
	Quadratic involutions on the plane rational quartic ..	Thomas Bryce Ashcraft	1911	3
	The elementary differential geometry of plane curves	Fowler, Ralph Howard Sir.	1920	3
	A book of curves	E. H. Lockwood	1961	3
	A catalog of special plane curves	J. Dennis Lawrence	1972	3
	Curves and fractal dimension	Claude Tricot	1995	3
	Dynamic Geometry on Time Scales	Svetlin G. Georgiev	2021	3
	Johannis Baptistae Caraccioli ... De lineis curvis liber	Giovanni Battista Caraccioli	1740	2
	A treatise on algebra, in practice and theory	John Bonnycastle	1813	2
	System der analytischen geometrie, auf neue betrachtungsweisen gegründet, und insbesondere eine ausführliche theorie der curven dritter ordnung enthaltend	Julius Plücker	1835	2
	A treatise on geometry and its application in the arts	Dionysius Lardner	1840	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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