In Geometria Male Restaurata ab authore A.S.L. rimae detectae a Petro Paolo Caravagio

by Petro Paolo Caravagio

$2,850 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First and only edition of this polemical volume of Italian geometry, responding to recent appropriations of the work of great French mathematician François Viète. In 1644 and 1648, respectively, the Venetian amateur astronomer Antonio Santini had published Supplementi Francisci Vietae and Inclinationum Appendix, which utilized Viète’s algebra to solve the..... More

• Binding: Leather

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