Opusculum geometricum de linea sinuum et cycloide. Auctore Antimo Farbio

by Honoré Fabri

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Rome: Heirs of Francesco Corbelletti, 1659. First edition of the Roman answer to Pascal’s cycloid challenge — the forty-four pages, issued under the pseudonym Antimus Farbius, in which Honoré Fabri dated his dedication 1 October 1658, the very day the contest in Paris closed, squared the cycloid four separate ways, found the centres of gravity of its segments and the solids it sweeps out about its base and its

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