Problematum geometricorum … libri V.

by Simon Stevin

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Antwerp: Jean Bellère, 1583 . First edition, very rare, of the principal geometrical work by Stevin, “perhaps the most original man of science of the second half of the sixteenth century” Sarton, p. 242 ; this highly original work is his only publication in Latin, and his second-published work after the Tables of Interest . “He was involved in geometry, algebra, arithmetic

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