In duos Archimedis Aequeponderantium Libros Paraphrasis Scholiis illustrata

by Guidobaldo del Monte

$8,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

First edition of an Archimedean work by Galileo’s friend and early patron Guidobaldo del Monte. Guidobaldo’s Liber mechanicorum (1577), regarded as the greatest work on statics since the Greeks, employed the mathematically rigorous proofs of Archimedean models in investigating static and mechanical questions. The present work develops many of those..... More

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