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Mathematics
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The First Treatise On Capillarity
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BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. De Motionibus Naturalibus a Gravitate Pendentibus Liber... Calabria, Dominici Ferri, 1670.
Very rare first edition of this important work on mechanics by Borelli and the first treatise on capillarity.
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Apollonius Epitome
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[Archimedes] BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso. Elementa Conica'et Archimedis Opera Nova & breviora methodo demonstrata. Rome, Mascardi, 1679.
Scarce first edition of this pocket epitome of Apollonius' Conics along with a pr's of the arguments of various works of Archimedes.
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Briggs And Napier Come To The Continent
In A Contemporary Binding
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BRIGGS, Henry / NAPIER, John / VLACQ, Adrian. Arithmetica Logarithmica sive Logarithmorum Chiliades Centrum, pro numeris naturali serie crescentobus ab Unitate ad 100000. Una cum Canone Triangulorum Seu Tabula Artificialium Sinuum, Tangentium & Secantium
. Gouda, Petrus Rammasenius, 1628.
Rare editions of two works important for bringing the new computational technique of Briggs and Napier to the Continent.
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The Art Of Computation
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KIRCHER, Athanasius. Tariffa Kircheriana, id est, inventum aucthoris novum, & mira arte combinata methodo. Rome, Nicolai Angelo Tinassi, 1679.
First edition and a very good copy of one of the few works by Kircher to be considered rare, and the only work of this most prolific of authors which he published under a pseudonym a fact which remains altogether unexplained to this day.
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Collisions In Prague
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MARCI A KRONLAND, Johannes Marcus de. De proportione motus Figurarum Recti Linearum et Circuli Quadrata ex Motu. Prague, Typographica Academica, 1648.
Very rare first edition of this work on the theory of collisions, responding in part to criticisms made of his 1639 title, De proportione motus seu Regula sphygmica as well as developing new theories.
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