Produzioni matematiche

by Giulio Carlo Fagnano

$6,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Pesaro: Stamperia Gavelliana, 1750. First edition of the collected mathematical writings of Giulio Carlo de’ Toschi di Fagnano — the only collected edition issued in his lifetime, and the two quarto volumes which, laid before the Berlin Academy on 23 December 1751, put his doubling of the arc of the lemniscate in front of Leonhard Euler — an entirely untrimmed set, with the author’s engraved lemniscate device on

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