Hemisphaerium Dissectum Opus Geometricum In Quo Obiter Tractatur De Maximis Inscriptibilibus

by Richard White

$2,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Roe: Manelfo Manelfi, 1648. First edition of this rare Galileianum, an explication and extension of the two books of Archimedes’ On the sphere and the cylinder, which gave the first exact determination of the area and volume of a curved figure. They “are, of course, exceptional masterpieces. According to a testimony by Cicero, whom there is no reason to doubt, Archimedes’ tomb had inscribed a sphere

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