De lineis rectis se invicem secantibus statica construction Staticæ constructionis liber primus -secundus

by Giovanni Benedetto Ceva

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Milan: Lodovico Monza, 1678. First edition, rare, of Ceva’s first and most important book. “Ceva’s most important mathematical work is De lineis rectis Milan, 1678 , dedicated to Ferdinando Carlo. Chasles mentions it with praise in his Aperçu historique. In this work Ceva used the properties of the center of gravity of a system of points to obtain the relation of the segments which

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