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Refreshing new insights and ideas View picture(s) 1 ABAT, Bonaventure. Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathematiques. Amsterdam, for Jean Mossy, Marseille, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with title label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title, 4 folding engraved plates with many figures and mathematical diagrams, some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. XXXII, 564, 4 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Philosophy  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A mathematical perception on cartwheels View picture(s) 2 AENEAE, Henricus. Wiskundige beschouwing van een hellend water-scheprad, nieuwlings door den heer A.G. Eckhardt in 's Haage uitgevonden. Waar in de voordelen van dit rad boven het gewoone scheprad wiskundig betoogd, en teffens de nadeelen, waar aan het onderheeevig zoude kunnen zijn, in overweeging genomen worden, en de middelen aangetoond hoe dezelve weg te neemen of te verhelpen zijn. Amsterdam, Gerrit Warnars, 1774. 8vo. With 7 engraved folding plates showing parts of a cartwheel. XVI, 34 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  Hydraulics  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five interesting and important early humanistic works printed in the second decade of the 16th century, bound together View picture(s) 3 AGRICOLA, Rudolphus. Dialectica. Dorpius studiosis. Ut rectis studiis consulator studiosi, excusa sunt vobis haec Agricola dialectica. Louvain, Theodor [Dirk] Martens, 1515, 4 January. With title-page printed in red and black with the famous large printer's device of Theodorus Martens (13.2 x 9 cm) flanked by 10 separate decorated and floral woodblocks. 62 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  Greek & Latin  Humanism  Law  Mathematics  Netherlands  Philology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Italian standard work on conjuring View picture(s) 4 ALBERTI, Giuseppe Francesco Antonio. I Giuochi numerici fatti arcani palesati. Venice, Giovanni Battista Locatelli, 1788. 8vo. Modern half vellum with red morocco title label on spine. With woodcut vignette on title, 57 figures depicting conjuring tricks on 16 engraved full-page plates bound at the end, and many printed tables and figures in the text. 156 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arithmetics  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The immediate forerunner of Galileo on the making and use of sundials View picture(s) 5 BENEDETTI, Giovanni Battista. De gnomonum umbrarumque solarium usu liber. Turin, Heirs of Niccolo Bevilacqua, 1574. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum. Large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee on title; about one hundred geometrical and perspectival woodcuts in text, several full-page, including a full-page perspective instrument invented by the author; charming and interesting woodcut initials in the text. (6), 123, (1 blank) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Measurable probability View picture(s) 6 BERNOULLI, Jakob. Ars conjectandi, opus posthumum. Accedit tractatus de seriebus infinitis, et Epistola Gallicè scripta de ludo pilae reticularis. Basel, Impensis Thurnisiorum, Fratrum, 1713. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with red title label. With 2 folding tables and a folding plate with several woodcut geometrical figures. [4], 306, 35, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Studybook of geometry View picture(s) 7 BEYEM VAN AERSSEN, Hippolytus. Eygenschappen der driehoecken met een half en anderhalf rechtenhoeck, waer onder verscheydene voorstellen sijn, die de rechthoeckige ende andere driehoecken betreffen. Met noch een tractaet handelende van vierkantinghe en deelinghe van verscheydene figuyren door circkelboghen besloten. Leeuwarden, Eyvo Taeckes Wielsma, 1671. Contemporary vellum. With a woodcut diagram on title-page, numerous woodcut diagrams in text. [8], 102, [4], 103-117, [3] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The predecessor of Kepler in calculating the cubic capacity of vessels View picture(s) 8 BEYER, Johann Hartmann. Ein Newe und schöne Art der vollkommenen Visierkunst: derengleichen hiebevor niemaln in keiner Spraach gesehen worden. Wie man nemlich vielerley underschiedne Visierstäbe zurichten auch mit denselbigen allerhand regulierten hole Cörpor sie seyen so groß oder kleyn sie immer mögen als mancherley Stärcke, Köhrcästen, Brunnen, Faß, Bütten, Eymer, Gläser, Kugeln u. Visieren und deren Inhalt ganz leichtlich erkündigen soll... Frankfurt am Main, Palthenium for Iona Rose, 1603. 4to. Modern overlapping vellum. Many woodcut diagrams and figures in text, many schedules with numeral information. (12), 68, 191 (1 blank), (38) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elementary geometry by an early Oxford professor View picture(s) 9 BRADWARDINE, Thomas. Geometria speculativa, omnes conclusiones geometricas  studentibus artium & philosophie aristotelis valde  necessarias simul cum quodam tractatus de quadratura  circuli noviter edito. 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. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Tahiti  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on trigonometry View picture(s) 10 CAGNOLI, Antonio. Traité de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique, contenant des méthodes et des formules nouvelles, avec des applications à la plupart des problêmes de l'astronomie. Traduite de l'Italien par M. Chompré. Paris, Didot l'ainé, for Didot fils ainé, = Jombert jeune, 1786. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label with title lettered in gold, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With 6 folded engraved plates with 93 mathematical figures and 12 folded printed tables (numb. I-IX). (4), XVI, 678 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Geometry  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique exploring the problem-solving reaches of geometry View picture(s) 11 CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite. De la Corrélation des Figures de Géométrie. Paris, Duprat, An IX=1801. Wrappers. With 4 folding engraved plates representing 28 geometrical figures. VIII, 188, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Geometry  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic work on astronomy and mathematics View picture(s) 12 CENSORINUS. De Die Natali Henric. Lindenbrogius recensuit; et notis. Iterata hac editione passim adauctis, illustratis. Leyden, Joannis Maire, 1642. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcuts in text, folding diagram of with the earth at the center of the solar system. (16), 250, (38) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Astronomy & Cosmography  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of an important vernacular mathematical treatise View picture(s) 13 CEULEN, Ludolf van. De arithmetische en geometrische fondamenten. Met het ghebruyck van dien in veele verscheydene constighe questien, soo geometrice door linien, als arithmetice door irrationale ghetallen, oock door den regel coss, ende de tafelen finuum ghesolveert. Leyden, Ioost van Colster, Iacob Marcus, 1615. Folio. Contemporary vellum, remains of ties. Engraved, oval shaped portrait of Van Ceulen on title, woodcut borders, initials and head- and tailpieces and numerous woodcut geometrical figures in text. (4), 271, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Arithmetics  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important mathematical treatise by a fencing master View picture(s) 14 CEULEN, Ludolf van. Fundamemta arithmetica et geometrica cum eorum usu. Leiden, Joost van Colster, 1615. 4to. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. With numerous woodcut arithmetical figures and diagrams in text. [4], 269 [=271] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Arithmetics  Leyden  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Expanded edition of standard arithmetic schoolbook: second copy located View picture(s) 15 COCK VAN ENCKHUYSEN, David. De Cyfer-Konst, noyt voor desen den leerlingen grondiger, noch ook duydelijker, voorgestelt. ... Den vijfde druck, van alle mis-druck gesuyvert, verbetert, ende merckelijck vermeerdert, door Dirck Amsterdam, widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1696. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. With woodcut decoration on title-page, and with 2 decorative woodcut initials. [8], 374 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Bookkeeping  Commerce  Education  Mathematics  Trade  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare work on sundials View picture(s) 16 COETS, Henrik. Horologiographia plana. Seu nova & perspicua in superficiebus planis omnia genera horologiorum describendi methodus. Leyden, Jacob Moukée, 1689. 4to. 18th-century blue-grey wrappers. With woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 20 engraved plates with diagrams. [12], 87, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Sundials  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to design and inscribe sundials View picture(s) 17 ERZEY, Adrianus. Wiskonstige beschryving der reguliere lichamen, aantoonende hoe men die uit massieve stoffe kan maaken, hun inhoud berekenen, en op dezelven zonnewyzers beschryven. Amsterdam, Jan Morterre, 1764. 8vo. Modern green half buckram. With 12 folding engraved plates showing mathematical figures by F. de Bakker. [10], 164, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Sundials  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dutch translation of the most successful and influential geometrical textbooks ever written View picture(s) 18 EUCLID & Jan Pieterszoon DOU. De ses eerste boecken Euclidis, van de beginselen ende fondamenten der geometrie. Waer by ghevoecht zijn eenighe nutticheden, uyt de selve boecken ghetrocken; mitsgaders de specien in geometrische figueren, als 't maken, veranderen, t' samen-voeghen, aftrecken, vermenichvuldighen, ende deelen. Overgheset, verclaert, ende uytgheleyt, tot vorderinghe, ende oeffeninghe, van alle leergierighe liefhebbers der selver vryer conste. Van nieus oversien, ende verbetert: mitsgaders de byghevoechde nutticheden, mette specien in geometr Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1626. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous woodcut geometrical figures in text. [14], 224 [2 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Dutch  Geometry  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare German translation of Euclid View picture(s) 19 EUCLID (& Lucas BRUNN). Elementa practica. Oder Ausszug aller Problematum und Handarbeiten auss den 15. Büchern Euclidis. Allen und jeden des uhralten geometrischen nutzlichen Gebrauch,s dess Cirkels Liebhabern zu gut in Teutsche Sprach dargegeben, durch M. Luc. Brunn. Nürnberg, Simon Halbmayer, (1625). 4to. Contemporary limp vellum. Title within an architectural and allegorical border engraved by Joh. Hauer, numerous woodcut borders, initials and mathematical figures in the text. (8), 92 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Classical Antiquity  Crafts  Geometry  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Faulhaber's mystical arithmetics, pyramidal numbers as key to biblical prophecies View picture(s) 20 FAULHABER, Johann. Andeutung, Einer unerhörten newen Wunderkunst. Welche der Geist Gottes, in etlichen Prophetischen, und Biblischen Geheimnuss Zahlen, bis auff die letzte Zeit hat wöllen versiegelt und verborgen halten. Darauss dann abzunehmen, das Gott zu allen zeiten die Ordnung gehalten, dass er in den fürnembsten General Propheceyungen, über die Hauptverenderungen sich der Piramidal Zahlen gebraucht wann er ein gewisse Zeit bestimmet. Ulm, Lorentz Miller, Nuremberg, Abraham Wagenmann, 1613. 4to. 19th-century half cloth, with paper title label on spine and side. [12] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Alchemy  Mathematics  Mystics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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