Nova Stereometria Doliorum Vinariorum In Primis Austriaci Figurae Omnium Aptissimae Et Usus In
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First edition
Linz: Johannes Plancus, for the author, 1615. / First edition, the Huet-Honeyman-Tomash copy with the errata leaf, of “one of the significant works in the prehistory of the calculus” DSB . Conceived when Kepler watched a wine merchant measure only the diagonal of a barrel and decided he could do better, the book treats solids as composed of infinitely many thin laminae, computes the volumes of ninety-six solids of revolution —
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