Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota. In hac postrema edictione sic ab erroribus expurgata
$7,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books
Bologna: Heirs of Evangelista Dozza, 1653. Second edition first, 1635 of Cavalieri’s text containing the discovery of the ‘method of indivisibles’, one of the most important forerunners of the integral calculus. Book II of the work includes the statement of ‘Cavalieri's principle’ for the determination of areas and volumes, which considers an area as made up of an indefinite number of equidistant parallel line
- Binding: Hardcover
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