De resolutione et compositione mathematica libri quinque. Opus posthumum

by Marino Ghetaldi, François ViÈTe

$65,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Rome: Camera Apostolica, 1630. First edition, extremely rare, and a magnificent copy from the library of Kenelm Digby, of the most important work of the great Croatian mathematician Marino Ghetaldi or Marin Getaldić who, while he did not introduce coordinates, is regarded by many scholars, on the basis of the present work, as the founder of analytic geometry – Descartes’ Géométrie was not

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