Quesiti, et Inventioni Diverse

by NiccolÒ Tartaglia

$6,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

FIRST EDITION OF TARTAGLIA’S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO MATHEMATICS, INCLUDING HIS RULE FOR SOLVING CUBIC EQUATIONS. “The ‘mathematical practitioners’ of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem to be acquiring an important role in histories which deal with the origins of the Scientific Revolution... Those who are fascinated by questions of origins in the history of science and technology find themselves driven more and more

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