[JESUIT EDUCATION / GALILEO].
Milan, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1759.
Trattato del Compasso di Proporzione … ad Instuzione de’ Signori Convittori del Collegio de’ Nobili di Milano.
Rare first and sole edition of this treatise on mathematics and the use of Galileo’s proportional compass, written expressly for the use of his mathematics pupils in the Jesuit College of Milan, by the Jesuit mathematics professor Giovanni Marchelli, thus providing interesting evidence for the use of scientific instruments in..... More