Cursus Mathematici Practici Volumen Primum all published : continens Illustr. & Generosi Dn. Dn. Johannis Neperi Baronis Merchistonii &c. Scoti. Trigonometriam Logarithmicam

by Benjamin Ursinus

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Cölln an der Spree: Martin Guthius, 1618. First edition, exceptionally rare, of the book that introduced logarithms to Continental Europe; in particular, it was through this work that Johannes Kepler, in ‘a happy calamity,’ as he called it, became aware of Napier’s epoch-making work, a discovery that enabled him to complete his great Rudolphine Tables 1627 , “the foundation of all planetary

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