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by Diophantus Of Alexandria

$125,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Basel: Eusebius Episcopius & Heirs of Nikolaus Episcopius, 1575. / First edition of Diophantus — the first printing of the Arithmetica in any form — signed and annotated by Giovanni Camillo Gloriosi 1572–1643 , Galileo’s successor at Padua. The long mathematical note at page 59 against Proposition II.19 is the working source for Gloriosi’s 1613 Ad theorema geometricum, the publication that, with

• Binding: Hardcover

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