Quaesita geometrica a comite Rugerio de Vigintimillis omnibus proposita

by Girolamo Saccheri

$18,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Milan: Milan: Marc’Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta, 1693. First edition, exceptionally rare, of Saccheri’s first published work on geometry, a precursor to his famous treatise on non-Euclidean geometry, Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus 1733 . “Saccheri proceeded in his youthful work with a ‘severa methodo’, aiming towards the construction of a geometry solidly based on its axioms and certain in

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