Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum … Including: Quaestiones super tractatu de latitudinibus formarum

by Nicole Oresme, Biagio Pelacani Da Parma, Blasius of

$75,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis, 1486. Second edition — the first, printed at Padua in 1482, survives in six institutional copies, all in continental Europe — of Oresme’s rare work, composed c. 1350, which introduced the use of graphs to represent the dependence of one variable quantity, such as velocity, upon another, such as time. It is bound, as issued, with Blasius of Parma’s Quaestiones, which applied its

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