Catalogue 36
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Mathematics
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The First Separately Issued Archimedean Texts
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ARCHIMEDES/BOETHIUS/CAMPANO Da Novara/GAURICO, Luca, ed.. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Cnu, Archimede Syracusanu atqz boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Venice, Ioan. Bapti. Sessa,, 1503.
First published Latin edition of De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, containing Archimedes' application of the method of exhaustion (the early form of integration) and the earliest theoretical calculation of p; apart from Valla's excerpts of 1501, THE FIRST PRINTED LATIN TEXTS OF ARCHIMEDES (Rose, p. 50).
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Logarithms For Italian Astronomers
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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura. Trigonometria... Bologna, Vittorio Benacci, 1643.
First edition of this fundamental work of trigonometry and without doubt the best text on the subject published in Italy during this period.
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Euler's Theorem
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EULER, Leonhard. Institutiones Calculi differentialis cum eius usu in Analysi Finitoum ac doctina serierum. St. Petersburg, Royal Academy of Sciences, 1755.
Rare first edition of this monument of analysis, the first textbook on the differential calculus which has any claim to be regarded as complete (Ball), the second installment of Euler's trilogy summarizing his researches on the differential and integral calculus, and one of Euler's rarest works.
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Duplicating The Cube
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MOLINA CANO, Juan Alfonso de / ed. & tr. JANSON, Nicolas. Nova Reperta Geometrica. Arnhem, Johannes Janson, 1620.
First editions of three illustrated geometrical works, the first two of which are dedicated to the time-honored Euclidean problem of doubling the cube. Also known as the "Delian problem,"this is one of three "classical problems" (ranked with trisecting the angle and squaring the circle) that challenged both ancient and modern mathematicians.
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Newly Illustrated
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NAPIER, John/LOCATELLO, Marco, tr.. Raddologgia, overo Arimmetica Virgolare in due libri divisa: con appresso un espeditissimo Prontuario della Molteplicatione, & poi un libro di Arimmetica Locale. Verona, Angelo Tamo, 1623.
Rare first Italian edition (first 1617) of the first description and explanation of the use of Napier's Bones, an automatic calculating device of interest for the history of computing, designed by the inventor of the logarithm.
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