VERSÜCH EINER VERGLEICHÜNG DER VERHÄLTNISSE DAS DIAMETERS ZUR PERIPHERIE. AN ATTEMPT TO COMPARE THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE DIAMETER TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE

by Geometry, Johann Gottlieb Arndt

$7,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Abundantly illustrated with watercolor drawings and tables. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound, remnants of contemporary reversed calf and marbled boards,losses to top edges. Item #315966 Extensive German manuscript on geometry, with handsome period-colored illustrations. The first part discusses the relationship of the diameter to the circumference, with an introduction on Pi, comparing findings by Euclid, Archimedes and Ptolemy, as well as 16th- and

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