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by Johannes Kepler

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Linz: Hans Blanck, 1616. First edition, a considerably revised, rearranged and augmented version of Kepler’s Nova Stereometria published the year before, a work which is “generally regarded as one of the significant works in the prehistory of the calculus” Gingerich in DSB . “Desiring to outfit his new household with the produce of a particularly good wine harvest, Kepler installed some casks in his

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