Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV: item De circulorum volutione per planum, dissertatio physiomath i ca

by André Tacquet, or Andreas

$15,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Antwerp: Jacob van Meurs, 1651. First edition, very rare, and a fine copy. “Tacquet’s most important mathematical work, Cylindricorum et annularium, contained a number of original theorems on cylinders and rings. Its main importance, however, lay in its concern with questions of method. Tacquet rejected all notions originating with Cavalieri that solids are composed of planes, planes of lines, and

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