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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura (1598-1647). Lo Specchio ustorio. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1650.
已結束2016年11月30日
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CAVALIERI, Bonaventura (1598-1647). Lo Specchio ustorio. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1650.
4° (205 x 145mm). 10 woodcut folding plates with 36 diagrams, last leaf of advice to booksellers, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Title lightly soiled and with small wormtrack in lower margin continued in the following 3 leaves, last plate tipped into pastedown, some mainly light spotting.) Contemporary vellum (front hinges cracked but cords holding, rear hinges split, modern red lettering on spine). Provenance: erased stamp (on title) – bookseller’s label (pastedown).
First published in 1632, this is an important work on conic sections - hyperbolas, ellipses and parabolas - and their 'marvellous effects', among which is the celebrated mirror of Archimedes, allegedly used at Syracuse to set fire to ships (DSB). It ‘includes the idea of the reflecting telescope, of which some have claimed Cavalieri to be the inventor, preceding Gregory and Newton’ (Norman 418). Carli-Favaro 203; Cinti 123.
4° (205 x 145mm). 10 woodcut folding plates with 36 diagrams, last leaf of advice to booksellers, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Title lightly soiled and with small wormtrack in lower margin continued in the following 3 leaves, last plate tipped into pastedown, some mainly light spotting.) Contemporary vellum (front hinges cracked but cords holding, rear hinges split, modern red lettering on spine). Provenance: erased stamp (on title) – bookseller’s label (pastedown).
First published in 1632, this is an important work on conic sections - hyperbolas, ellipses and parabolas - and their 'marvellous effects', among which is the celebrated mirror of Archimedes, allegedly used at Syracuse to set fire to ships (DSB). It ‘includes the idea of the reflecting telescope, of which some have claimed Cavalieri to be the inventor, preceding Gregory and Newton’ (Norman 418). Carli-Favaro 203; Cinti 123.
CAVALIERI, Bonaventura (1598-1647). Lo Specchio ustorio. Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1650.
4° (205 x 145mm). 10 woodcut folding plates with 36 diagrams, last leaf of advice to booksellers, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Title lightly soiled and with small wormtrack in lower margin continued in the following 3 leaves, last plate tipped into pastedown, some mainly light spotting.) Contemporary vellum (front hinges cracked but cords holding, rear hinges split, modern red lettering on spine). Provenance: erased stamp (on title) – bookseller’s label (pastedown).
First published in 1632, this is an important work on conic sections - hyperbolas, ellipses and parabolas - and their 'marvellous effects', among which is the celebrated mirror of Archimedes, allegedly used at Syracuse to set fire to ships (DSB). It ‘includes the idea of the reflecting telescope, of which some have claimed Cavalieri to be the inventor, preceding Gregory and Newton’ (Norman 418). Carli-Favaro 203; Cinti 123.
4° (205 x 145mm). 10 woodcut folding plates with 36 diagrams, last leaf of advice to booksellers, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. (Title lightly soiled and with small wormtrack in lower margin continued in the following 3 leaves, last plate tipped into pastedown, some mainly light spotting.) Contemporary vellum (front hinges cracked but cords holding, rear hinges split, modern red lettering on spine). Provenance: erased stamp (on title) – bookseller’s label (pastedown).
First published in 1632, this is an important work on conic sections - hyperbolas, ellipses and parabolas - and their 'marvellous effects', among which is the celebrated mirror of Archimedes, allegedly used at Syracuse to set fire to ships (DSB). It ‘includes the idea of the reflecting telescope, of which some have claimed Cavalieri to be the inventor, preceding Gregory and Newton’ (Norman 418). Carli-Favaro 203; Cinti 123.
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