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On all contemporary aspects of geometry View picture(s) 1 BERICHT, Ein begründter und verständiger -, von dem Feldmessen, wie man Aecker, Wisen, Gärten, Höltzer, Weyer und andere Grundstück ihrer grösse nach und wievil deren jedes Jucharten, Rueten uns Schuech aigentlich in sich halte, messen auch dieselbige in etliche gleiche oder ungleiche Thail abthailen soll. Deßgleichen wie solche Gründ nach ihr jedes Form und Gestalt in den Grund gelegt, dem verjüngten Maß nach auffgerissen und folgends auff Pappier leichtlicher als zu Feld mögen gemessen werden. Item, wie man die Weite von einem Ort zum anderen, als zwischen Stadt, Schlösser, Dörffer und anders messen, auch derselben Revier, und wie sie zu Land gelegen, auff das Pappir reissen soll. Mit einem kurtzen Underricht, wie man diese Messerey an allen Orthen leichtlich brauchen künde. München, Johann Jaecklin, 1665. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spine ribbed with gilt title label, red painted edges. Woodcut coat of arms on title, many small and larger woodcut figures in text, one folding table. (6), 154, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Geometry  German  Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Learn to talk like a sailor View picture(s) 2 (AUBIN). Dictionaire de marine. Contenant les termes de la navigation et de l'architecture navale. Avec les règles & proportions qui doivent y etre observées. Amsterdam, Pierre Brunel, 1702. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt with red morocco title-label. Engraved allegorical frontispiece showing several workingmen with navigation instruments and 2 "nautical" figures viewing a scene of a harbour in which several ships are being built and repared, title in red & black, 30 engraved plates depicting different kinds of ships and navigation instruments. The text is illustrated with numerous woodcut figures. (12), 776 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Dictionaries  Engravings  Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Ships & Shipbuilding  Technology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The important collection from the French mathematician Michel Chasles (1793-1880) of rare scientific books View picture(s) 3 (CHASLES, Michel). Catalogue de la Bibliothèque scientifique, historique et littéraire de feu Michel Chasles. Supplément. Paris, A. Claudin, Libraire, 1881. 2 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. 390; 396-415 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Bookseller's & Auction Catalogues  History  Libraries & Collections  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Refreshing new insights and ideas View picture(s) 4 ABAT, Bonaventure. Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathematiques. Amsterdam, Jean Mossy, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and compartments gilt with floral ornaments, marbled edges. 4 folding engraved plates with many figures, some woodcut head- and tailpieces. 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) 5 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) 6 AGRICOLA, Rudolphus. Dialectica. Dorpius studiosis. Ut rectis studiis consulator studiosi, excusa sunt vobis haec Agricola dialectica ... Louvain, Theodor (Dirk) Martens, 1515, 4 January. Folio. 16th century half pigskin, tooled in blind with several decorated rolls, over wooden boards. Half of the boards uncovered but the imprint of tooling is still visible; two clasps and catches (one clasp missing). Probably rebound, re-using a piece of stamped pigskin from an older binding. Titles written on the front edge. Title printed in red and black with the famous large printer's device of Theodorus Martens (132x90mm) flanked by 10 separate decorated and floral woodblocks. 62 lvs. 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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First edition of the first Italian book on mathematical tricks and conjuring View picture(s) 7 ALBERTI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO I Giuochi Numerici Fatti Arcani Palesati. Bologna, Bartolomea Borghi, 1747. 16mo. 19th century half cloth with marbled boards. With 16 full-page engraved plates and many woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text. (VII), 314, 2 blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: Italy  Magic & Conjuring  Mathematics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Italian standard work on conjuring View picture(s) 8 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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On all aspects of navigation View picture(s) 9 ALBRIZZI, Girolamo (also listed under: ALBERTI, Girolamo). Introduzione all'arte nautica per uso de piloti e capitani di nave, e per il migliore servizio de commandanti sopra il mare. Venice, Girolamo Albrizzi, 1715. 4to. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with paper label on spine. With 2 engraved frontispieces, of which one allegorical, by Giuseppe Baroni after Luca Carlevaris, one table, one astronomical plate, 4 plates depicting numerous flags, and 24 plates, of which 13 full-page, 11 folding, and 5 with movable parts, depicting all kinds of nautic instruments, a Venetian galleon, and numerous tables, figures and diagrams. (16), 295 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Navigation  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First printed edition of a very famous scientific work of the English mediaeval natural philosopher and mathematician Roger Bacon View picture(s) 10 BACON, R. Perspectiva. In qua, quae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, nervose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Opera & studio Ioannis Combachii. Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter, for Antonius Hummius, 1614. 4to. Modern blank boards, red painted edges. With 8 full-page woodcut plates on both sides of four lvs. outside collation, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations on perspective in text, several full-page. (8), 189 (=205), (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Perspective  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First printed edition of one of the most important scientific works by Roger Bacon (ca. 1220-ca. 1292) View picture(s) 11 BACON, R. Specula mathematica: in qua, de specierum multiplicatione, earundemque in inferioribus virtute agitur. Liber Omnium scientiarum studiosis apprime utilis, editus opera & studio Iohannis Combachii. Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter for Antonius Hummius, 1614. 4to Later mottled calf, gilt spine divided in 6 compartments. Numerous woodcut geometrical figures in text. (8), 83, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Science  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) 12 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 propability View picture(s) 13 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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The predecessor of Kepler in calculating the cubic capacity of vessels View picture(s) 14 BEYER, Johann-H. 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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On steermanship View picture(s) 15 BLONDEL S., AUBIN, (G.). Le tresor de la navigation. Divisé en deux parties, la premiere contient la theorie & pratique des triangles spheriques, enrichie de plusieurs problemes astronomiques & geographiques, tres-utiles aux navigateurs. La seconde enseigne l'art de naviger par la suputation & démonstration des triangles rectelignes & spheriques; tant par les sinus que par les logarithmes. Le Havre, Jacques Gruchet, 1673. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemp. vellum. With numerous woodcut figures in text. (8), 156; 230, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Mathematics  Navigation  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important description of a new mechanism in clockworks View picture(s) 16 BONOMO, F. Automatum inaequale sive horologium antiquum automatis animatum. Opusculum sanè perutile, ac pro rei novitate jucundum, in quo multiplex datur. Hoc nondùm excogitatum automatum condendi methodus. Cui adjecta est duplex appendix, una suppletiva. De alia praestantiore machina, qua index, & avis horaria miro artificio animantur. Altera exotica trigonometrica de trianguli spherici obliquanguli neperiana solutione. Palermo, Francisco Valenze, 1747. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt. Numerous woodcut capitals, head- and tailpieces, some tabels in text and 15 numbered, folding engraved plates of timepieces and clockworks. (8), 122 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Horology  Mathematics  Mechanics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Elementary geometry by an early Oxford professor View picture(s) 17 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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The dimensions of Noah's Ark View picture(s) 18 BUTEO, Johannes. Opera geometrica. Lyon, Michael Iovium, 1559. 4to. Later calf (LOBSTEIN-LAURENCHET). Several woodcut initials and woodcut geometrical figures in text, woodcut printer's vignette on verso of the last leaf. 158, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Geometry  History  Law  Mathematics  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on trigonometry View picture(s) 19 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) 20 CARNOT, L.N.M. 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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