Diversarum Speculationum Mathematicarum Physicarum Liber Theoremata Arithmetica De

by Giovanni Battista Benedetti

$48,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Turin: heirs of Niccolò Bevilaqua, 1585. First edition, very rare, of Benedetti’s major work, his Book of Various Mathematical and Physical Ideas, which include theories of motion and experiments on falling bodies predating Galileo’s studies on the subject, as well as studies of perspective presented in three-dimensional terms, fifty years before Desargues articulated his theories of projective

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