Zōho Sanpō ketsugishō, 5 kan

by Isomura Yoshinori

$12,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Extremely rare copy of a classic work produced in 1661 during Japan’s intellectual awakening by the important mathematician Isomura Yoshinori (d. 1710). This much enlarged third edition (1684) includes new uses for pi, such as novel calculations of the surface of a sphere. It solves other practical problems, for instance..... More

• Binding: Wrappers

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