Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum Libri Sex Et De Numeris Multangulis Liber Unus Nunc Primum

by Diophantus Of Alexandria Claude Gaspard Bachet De Meziriac

$28,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Hieronymus Drouart, 1621. / Extremely rare large paper copy of the editio princeps of the first systematic treatise on algebra and number theory, comprising the first printing of the Greek text of Diophantus with Xylander's Latin translation of 1575 and Bachet's new commentary. Bachet made Diophantus available to Latin-reading Europe in a form worth working with. It was a copy of this edition that Fermat annotated with the 48 marginalia his

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