A Geometrical Practical Treatize Named Pantometria Divided Into Three Bookes Longimetra

by Leonard Digges Thomas Digges

$35,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Abell Jeffes, 1591. Second and best edition of this important Elizabethan work on practical geometry, in which “for the first time, we have indications of an instrument which we may call a reflecting telescope” King, The History of the Telescope, p. 29 . This second edition contains several appendices by Thomas Digges, not present in the first edition, which constitute “the first serious

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