Autograph letter signed, in Latin, with richly scientific content, from Padua, dated 29 April 1719, to the Scottish mathematician James Stirling, then in Venice

by Nikolaus I. Bernoulli

$18,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

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Padua: 1719 . / An outstanding scientific document, descended in the Stirling family at Garden House, Stirlingshire, from the eighteenth century down to the present generation, and the earliest item of James Stirling's scientific correspondence recorded in private hands. Its three principal subjects — the motion of a cycloidal pendulum in a resisting medium Newton, Principia Book II , Brook Taylor's 1718 challenge to the Continental mathematicians on the integration of rational

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