De locis solidis, secunda divinatio geometrica… Opus conicum.

by Vincenzo Viviani

€3,500 · Offered by Librairie Clavreuil

Riccardi, 629: « Bella et rara ediz. »; Cinti, 167. Édition originale. Premier ouvrage de Viviani, qui ne fut imprimé qu à la fin de sa vie. « Although the Medici court gave him much work, Viviani studied the geometry of the ancients. His accomplishments brought him membership in the Accademia del Cimento , and in 1696 he became a member of the Royal Society of London . in 1699 he was elected one of the eight foreign members of the Académie des Sciences in Paris Viviani s first project was an attempted restoration of a work by Aristaeus the Elder, De locis solidis divinatio geometrica , which Viviani undertook when he was twenty-four. Aristaeus work is believed to have been the first methodical exposition of the curves discovered by Menaechmus; but since it has been entirely lost, it is difficult to estimate how close Viviani came to the original work » (DSB XIV, p.49). Viviani (1622-1703) fut l élève et le biographe de Galilée. L ouvrage est illustré d un portrait de Galilée et de 2 planches représentant la maison construite par Viviani en son honneur et décorée de plaques portant des inscriptions à sa louange. Bon exemplaire. Une galerie de vers dans la marge des derniers feuillets atteint un peu les planches. Petites restaurations anciennes.

• Binding: Hardcover

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