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Overlooked Editio Princeps:
Of the First Treatise On Conic Sections
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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA / Ed. MEMO, Giovanni Battista.. Opera per doctissimum Philosophum Ioannem Baptistam Memum…de Graeco in Latinum Traducta & Noviter impressa. Venice, Bernardo Bindoni, 1537.
Very rare editio princeps of Apollonius Conics (Books I-IV), the basic treatise on the subject, “which recognized and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.” – Horblit 4 (on the later edition of 1566).
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“The ‘Opening Gun’ In the Campaign Against Galileo's Dialogo”
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[Galileiana] BERIGARD, Claudio [Claude Guillermet]. Dubitationes in dialogum Galilaei Galilaei Lyncei in Gymnasio Pisano mathematici supraordinarij. Florence, Petri Nesti, 1632.
Rare first and only edition of this understudied treatise, the first critique of Galileo’s Dialogo, by a staunch proponent of fixed-earth Aristotelianism.
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The Most Influential Arithmetical Work Of The Fifteenth Century
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BORGHI, Pietro. Qui comenza la nobel opera de arithmethica ne la qual se tracta tute cosse amercantia pertinente facta... Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 1484.
Rare first edition of the second commercial arithmetic published in Italy (Stillwell), a staple of the Abbaccho classroom of 15th-century Italy, with its chapters on currency exchange and barter , providing the computational skills on which the trading and financial empires of all the Italian city-states depended.
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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.
Rare first edition of the first work on logarithms printed in Italy and this great mathematician's first published work.
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