De Centro Gravitatis Solidorum Libri Tres Rome B Artolomeo Bonfadino 1604 Bound With Quadratura

by Luca Valerio

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Rome: Bonfadino; Facio, 1604; 1606. First editions of these two rare and fundamental works on determining centres of gravity – these are fascinating copies with numerous contemporary annotations in an untouched contemporary binding. In these books Valerio transformed the Archimedean ‘method of exhaustion’ into a series of important theorems “so that for a whole class of convex curves and solids it was no

• Binding: Hardcover

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