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Drawing Instrument For Conic Sections (1627)
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[Instruments] BRAMER, Benjamin. Instrumentum Conicum Universale. Kassel, 1627.
Very rare first and only edition of this separately published broadside, describing an instrument for drawing conic sections invented by one of the most prolific architects and mathematicians of early seventeenth-century Germany.
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Introducing Logarithms to Italy
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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura. Directorium generale uranometricum in quo trigonometriae logarithmicae fundamenta... [Including:] Tabvla trigonom. Logarithmica. Bologna, Nicolai Tebaldini, 1632.
Very attractive copy of the rare first edition of the first work on logarithms printed in Italy, the first published work of a great mathematician of whom Galileo wrote, “few, if any, since Archimedes, have delved as far and as deep into the science of geometry.”
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The Dutch Encounter “The High Point of Alexandrian Greek Algebra”
Extremely Rare Imprint With No Copy in America
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DIOPHANTUS ALEXANDRINUS; HUIPS, Frans van der, trans., ed.. Algebra, ofte een noodige, korte en klare onder-wyzinge inde beginzelen en gronden vande stel-konst: doorgaans verçiert met verscheiden nieuwe regelen . Tot Heusden, Hendrick Troyen, 1654.
First Dutch edition (first Latin 1575) of the computational arithmetic treatise by Diophantus (fl. A.D. 250): “the greatest Greek writer on Algebra...(&) one of the greatest algebraists of all times.”—Sarton, I.336.
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A Sudoku Source
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Isomura Yoshinori. Zōho Sanpō ketsugishō, 5 kan. Kyoto, Nakamura Gohei , 1684.
Extremely rare copy of a classic work produced in 1661 during Japan’s intellectual awakening by the important mathematician Isomura Yoshinori (d. 1710).
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Improving on Napier
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MORLAND, [Sir Samuel]. The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments. London, Moses Pitt, 1673.
First edition of the first book on a calculator written in English, and the first separate work on the subject after Napier's Rabdologiae.
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