Quesiti Et Inventioni Diverse Colophon Venice Venturino Ruffinelli 1546 Bound With Ibid La Nova

by Niccolo Tartaglia

$17,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice: Giovanni Padovano for Curzio Troiano Navò, 1550. First edition of Tartaglia’s Quesiti, second edition of the other two works. The Quesiti continues the discussion of ballistics in Tartaglia’s Nova scientia first published in 1537 , pointing out for the first time that the trajectory of a projectile is curved throughout in the Nova Scientia he argued that the path of a projectile

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