Geometriae Speciose Elementa

by Pietro Mengoli

$22,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Bologna: Giovanni Battista Ferroni, 1659. First edition, and a fine copy from the library of Pietro Riccardi, of this very rare and highly original work in which Mengoli “set up the basic rules of the calculus thirty years before Newton and Leibniz. Both of these were influenced by his contribution, in the case of Leibniz the influence was direct as he read Mengoli’s work, while in the case of Newton he knew of it

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