Quinto Libro Degli Elementi D Euclide Ovvero Scienza Universale Delle Proporzioni Speigata

by Galileo Galilei Vincenzo Viviani

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Florence: Condotta, 1674. The true first edition, very rare, signed and inscribed by Viviani to Edme Mariotte, of this important Galileanum, an assembly of previously unpublished writings by Galileo, together with texts by Torricelli and Viviani himself. Most importantly, it contains the first printing of a Galileo manuscript concerned with the Eudoxian theory of proportion which may be

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