Controversiæ de vera Circuli mensura Anno 1644 exortæ, inter Christianum Severini Longomontanum … et Joannem Pellium … Pars prima all published

by John Pell

$1,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Amsterdam: Johan Blaeu, 1647. First edition of Pell’s rare refutation of Longomontanus’s claim to have squared the circle — the volume in which a newly appointed Amsterdam professor of mathematics put a two-page demolition of one of the best-known professors of mathematics in northern Europe before the learned world, reprinted the Dane’s two replies beside it, and added the proofs and endorsements of his own

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