Euclides ab omni nævo vindicatus: sive conatus geometricus quo stabiliuntur prima ipsa universæ geometriæ principia

by Girolamo Saccheri

$60,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Milan: Pauli Antonii Montani, 1733. First edition, notoriously rare, of this “masterpiece of eighteenth-century geometry” De Risi, p. 40 , “the first treatise on non-Euclidean geometry … this rare and inestimable treasure” George Bruce Halstead . “Today it is generally recognized by mathematicians as one of the important documents in the history of geometry” Emch, p. 53 . In it, Saccheri attempted

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