Miscellanea Hoc Est I Dissertatio De Barometris Thermometris Ii Machinae Aritmeticae Ejusque

by Giovanni Poleni

$8,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice: Aloysius Pavinus, 1709. First edition of Poleni’s first book, the second part of which is a description of an early ‘arithmetical machine,’ or primitive calculator. Babbage had a copy of this work in his library. “Poleni’s earliest paper was Miscellanea: de barometris et thermometris; de machinaquadam arithmetiea; de sectionibus conicis in horologiis solaribus

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