Trigonometria plana, et sphaerica, linearis, & logarithmica. Hoc est, tam per sinuum, tangentium, & secantium multiplicationem, ac divisionem iuxta veteres: quam per logarithmorum simplicem fere additionem iuxta recentiores; ad triangulorum dimetiendos angulos, & latera procedens.Bologna, heirs of Victor Benati, 1643. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 28 geometrical figures on a folding engraved plate. Contemporary vellum, with manuscript title on spine.
CAVALIERI, Bonaventura Francesco. · 1598 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
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[16], 71, [1 blank]; [4], 44, [4] ll. (tables)First edition of the celebrated mathematical textbook on trigonometry by Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647), a student of Galileo and professor in mathematics at Bologna. He discovered the method of indivisibles, the first step in i...
