Catalogue 38
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Mathematics
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ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David. ΑΡΧΙΜΗΔΟΥΣ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ. Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata. Paris, Claude Morel, 1615.
First edition of the most influential seventeenth-century edition of Archimedes’ complete works.
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EUCLID / CAIANI, Angelo, ed. & tr. I quindici libri degli elementi di Euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana. Rome, [Antonio Blado Asolano], 1545.
Rare first edition of Euclid extracts in Italian, preceded only by Tartaglia’s translation of 1543, of which it is independent.
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GALILEI, Galileo. Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Mathematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze Attenenti alla Mecanica & Movimenti Locali. Leiden, Elzevier, 1638.
First edition and a very attractive copy of Galileo’s final work, the first systematic attempt to give a mathematical treatment of kinematics and considered by most contemporary historians of the period “his greatest scientific achievement...
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With 300 Woodcuts
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MALCONETI[/TUS], Jacob. Selbst-Lehrende Geometrie oder neue und kurtze Institutiones mechanicae, stereometriae et geodesiae…. Frankfurt, Johann Adolph and Philipp Wilhelm Stock, 1700.
Rare, first and only edition of Malconeti’s generously illustrated mathematics textbook.
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Charmingly Illustrated Spanish Mathematics Workbook
With Reference
to America
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PUJOL Y SARDÁ, Francisco. Aritmética práctica. Spanish manuscript on watermarked paper (sign of Antonio Figueras). Barcelona, c. 1800/1816.
Charmingly decorated, Spanish manuscript mathematics workbook, emphasizing commercial calculations, most likely produced in Barcelona.
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