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Mathematics
There 6 books available for adoption.
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Algorithmus Linealis Numeratione[m]Build and Access the Collection - $6,400 One of the earliest treatises on calculation by the aid of counters on an abacus. In the dedication, Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach (1482-1542) refers to Aristotle and Boethius. There is a brief introduction on the use of counters or projectiles, then the work covers addition, subtraction,...Read More |
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Beschreibung Eines EllipsographBuild and Access the Collection - $800 A superb monograph on the theory, construction and use of a mechanical drawing device to describe ellipses. The author, Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767 1852) was a German scientist, the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat (University of Tartu), being elected by the University Council...Read More |
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De Infinitis Infinitorum, et Infinite Parvorum Ordinibus Disquisitio GeometricaBuild and Access the Collection - $3,000 Bound with:
Grandi, Guido. Prostasis ad exceptiones Cl. Varignonii libro de infinitis infinitorum ordinibus oppositas... Pisis : Ex typographia Francisci Bindi..., 1713.
Grandi, Guido. Dialoghi del p.m. Grandi Camaldolese teologo, e matematico dell'Altezza Reale di Toscana... In Lucca : Ad...Read More |
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De Natura et Veritate Methodi FluxionumBuild and Access the Collection - $700 A scarce copy of Daniel Melander's (1726-1810) dissertation on the rival claims and speculations that led to a concrete understanding of the nature and beauty of calculus. Melander was a student at Uppsala and later became lecturer in physics and professor of astronomy. In 1782 he moved to...Read More |
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Geometriae pars UniversalisBuild and Access the Collection - $9,500 Three major works of Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory (1638-1675) who discovered infinite series representations for a number of trigonometry functions, although he is mostly remembered for his description of the first practical reflecting telescope, now known as the...Read More |
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Herrn Georgii Galgemairs Kurtzer Gründlicher Gebesserter unnd Vermehrter UnderrichtBuild and Access the Collection - $3,850 Second, greatly expanded edition of a primer describing the construction & use of two instruments a proportional compass (Circkel) and lineal compass (Schregmäß) for the measurement of geometrical solids and lines, respectively. This 1615 edition is ninety-five pages longer than the initial...Read More |
