Shūki sanpō 拾璣算法 Computational Methods for Picking Up Pearls

by Yoriyuki 有馬頼徸 Arima, Fumikage 豐田文景, using the name

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First edition

Numerous woodcut illustrations. Five vols. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers with orig. title-slips, new stitching. Edo, Kyoto, & Osaka: Suharaya mohei 須原屋茂兵衛, 1769. First edition of this influential book of mathematics, which inspired a number of commentaries and derivative works. Arima 1714-83 was the lord of Kurume domain in present-day Fukuoka prefecture on Kyushu. He was a patron of scholarship, and for the education of

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