De maximis et minimis geometrica divinatio in quintum Conicorum Apollonii Pergaei adhuc desideratum

by Vincenzo Viviani

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Florence: G. Cocchini, 1659. First edition, and a fine copy, of Viviani’s reconstruction of the fifth book of Apollonius of Perga’s Conics, “one of the greatest scientific books of antiquity” Stillwell , alongside those of Euclid and Archimedes. Of the eight books of the Conics only the first four were known in Latin until the mid-17th century. An Arabic manuscript of three of the

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