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Elementary geometry by an early Oxford professor

BRADWARDINE, Thomas.
Geometria speculativa, omnes conclusiones geometricas  studentibus artium & philosophie aristotelis valde  necessarias simul cum quodam tractatus de quadratura  circuli noviter edito.

With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages.

With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages.

With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages.

With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages.

With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages.



Paris, Gaillard, for Jehan Petit, 1511. Small folio. Modern calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind-stamped in the style of the early 16th-century, uncut. With large woodcut publisher's device on title, and numerous geometrical and perspectival woodcut figures in the wide outer margins of most pages. (40) pp.

Beautifully produced and illustrated early 14th century treatise on geometry for use of art students and philosophers with little appetite for mathematical niceties. Although an elementary compendium of the subject, it still does include elementary material not developed in Euclid's "Elements", like stellar polygons, isoperimetry, the filling of space by touching polyedra, etc. Thomas  Bradwardine was a famous English mathematician and natural philosopher born about 1290-1300, and died at Lambeth, England, in 1349. Bradwardine taught art at Oxford until in about 1335 he was appointed chaplain to King Edward III and accompanied the latter to Flanders and France. Just before his death he was appointed  Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bradwardine wrote all his  philosophical, mainly on logic, and mathematical works, mainly on the science of art, when still teaching at Oxford. The present work also, intended for students  of art and philosophy, is especially of interest as  its author was primarily interested in the relation  of mathematics with art and philosophy. It was first published, edited by Petrus Cirvelo, at Paris in 1495 and much republished throughout the 16th century. Still all editions are very rare today.

Fine copy.
Adams B 2651; not in STC French, or Coll. Honeyman; Poggendorff I, p. 271 (other ed.); DSB 2, p. 390 ff.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Tahiti 

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