Summa De Arithmetica Geometria Proportioni Et Proportionalita Nouamente Impressa In Toscolano

by Luca Pacioli Lucas De Burgo S Sepulchri

$185,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Toscolano: Paganino de’ Paganini, 20 December, 1523. Second edition, very rare, a close reprint of the first edition Venice, 1494 , and a copy with distinguished provenance. The Summa is a work of enormous importance on several levels. It is the first mathematical encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, “the first great general work on mathematics printed” Smith, Rara arithmetica, p. 56 , and the

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