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Transcription of a 15th century mathematical treatise. "Testo: Originale dal 'Trattato di Aritmetica' di Filippo Calandri (Codice membranaceo del XVI secolo - manoscritto 2669 della Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze). Introduzione, trascrizione e glossario: Prof. Dr. Gino Arrighi. ...Riproduzione, stampa e legatura: Officine Grafiche F.lli Stianti di S. Casciano Val di Pesa (Firenze)." (imprint at end). xxxvi, 222 pages, eight color plates; 17.5 cm. Bound in brown printed paper covers; three oil blots on front near bottom of spine (not affecting text); Very Good+. Stock#ofc0689.

Hardcover. Two volumes in one: [20] pages, 656, 676 columns, [2] pages, 212, 200 columns; [18], 294 pages, 106 columns, [17] pages, index. Besterman 3727. Renaissance Italian artists and merchants influenced the mathematics of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in several ways. In the 15th century a group of Tuscan artists incorporated linear perspective into their practice and teaching, about a century before the subject was formally treated by mathematicians. By 1380 an algebraic symbolism had been developed in Italy in which letters were used for the unknown, for its square, and for constants. Included as well are all the mathematical works of Galileo. Riccardi's work remains a standard on the subject of Italian mathematical literature from the beginning of printing to the 1800s. It includes 15,000 descriptions of books in alphabetical order with full title, collations, cross references to other standard works and valuable annotations which include rarity and number of editions. This reprint… Read More

Berlin, Welt-Verlag, c1921. Translation of Sefer ha-Echad. From the library of G. J. Toomer, translator of Ptolemy's Almagest. Hard Cover. 80 pages, diagrams; 19 cm. Fair, spine gone, a using copy. Stock#47260.

New York, Columbia University Press, 2006 for the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. Hard Cover. 252 p,, This is the only complete catalogue of the nearly four hundred Sanskrit manuscripts contained in the Rare Book Library at Columbia University. The collection is especially strong in works on mathematics and astronomy, assembled by David Eugene Smith (1860-1944), Professor of Mathematics at Teachers College from 1901 to 1926. In addition to scholarly descriptions of the manuscript and the works they contain, the volume has numerous indices covering the persons, places, titles, and dates associated with the manuscripts. (1614x). Fine / new from publisher

Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., NY [ca. 1960?; Anthoensen Press, Portland]. Soft Cover. 98 p., illus., XVI plates, index; 23 cm. Title continues: and related subjects. Manuscripts and Printed Books from the 15th to the 20th Century. Bookseller's sale catalog with prices. Subjects include acoustics, anatomy, astronomy, chemistry, contagious diseases, electricity, gastronomy, geology, gynaecology, horology, inoculation, Jewish med. & science, mathematics, microscopy, navigation, optics & ophthalmology, ornithology, physics, physiology, scientific instruments, snake poison, surveying. Cream paper covers stamped in red; minor wear, spine slightly darkened; VG. Stock# 44,204

N.Y. & Cleveland, World, 1971. Hard Cover. xv, 718 p., illus., 23.5 cm.This brilliant biography deals with Albert Einstein as a man and with his mathematical, physics and cosmographical ideas in their context. A remarkable achievement. Stock# 32,273x. Vg/no dj. Another copy. Good, pages wavey, rear cover spotted as exposed to moisture/ dj. also damp stained.

New York, Macmillan, 1911.. Hard Cover. vii, 205 p. 23 cm. A textbook on Trigonometry. Stock# 40,577. Good, used and worn.

Boston, J. G. Cupples [1891]. First Edition. Hard Cover. xxi, 167, [3] pages, portrait frontispiece, facsimile illus.; 25 x 16 cm. Text runs parallel with back of cover. A mélange of algebra, poetry, Harvard College memories. Bound in cherry red cloth with gilt stamped clover on cover; edges and top & bottom of spine worn; good+. Stock#OB630.

New York : W. W. Norton, ©2006.. Hard Cover. 319 p. : illus. ; index, 21 cm. This isn't quite a biography, but rather an attempt to trace the strands of Turing's life: how his literalness, his homosexuality intertwined with his interest in artificial intelligence. How mathematical theory and philosophy realized practical machine applications that led to computers. Stock# 45,139, Vg / dj vg.

David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, August 1- September 5, 1988.. Soft Cover. 31, [1] p.; 23.5 x 23.5 cm. "His lifelong passion for number patterns and his genius for constructing magic squares established him as one of the leading contributors to the field of recreational mathematics." Stock #29,783x. Stapled in printed paper covers; fine.

N.Y., W.H. Freeman, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. xv, 240 p., illus. 24 cm. "Shows clearly how the mathematical imagination creates new landscapes in strange and unpredictable ways." Stock# 30,930. Vg/ dj vg.

Worcester (Massachusetts), Isaiah Thomas, 1795. First Edition. Hard Cover. 516 p. incl. illus., tables, diagrams; 21 cm. (A-Sss4, Ttt2). Title continues: Revised And Corrected, By Ebenezer Adams, A.M. Preceptor of Leicester Academy. First edition was Newburyport, 1788. This is the self-proclaimed first American written arithmetic. ”Allen Smith's Book New London June 1, 1803” in ink on flyleaf. Evans 32692; Sabin 62830; cf. DAB for Pike. Bound in contemporary full leather, worn but whole. Pages stained throughout. Stock#OB039.

Macmillan [c1963, éditions du Seuil]. Hard Cover. 677 pages, illus.; 22 cm. Complete works of Pascal; in French. Contents incl. Chronologie; La vie de M. Pascal, écrite par Mme Périer, sa soeur; Oeuvres mathématiques (Traité des coniques, La règle des partis, Traité du triangle arithmétique et traités connexes; Les carrés magiques; Adresse à l'Académie Parisienne; La Roulette et traités connexes; Dimension des lignes courbes); Oeuvres physiques (La machine d'arithmétique; Le vide, l'équilibre des liqueurs et la pesanteur de l'air); Lettres; Opuscules (11); Les Provinciales (20); Les écrits des curés de Paris (5); Pensées (Section I. Papiers classés, Section II. Papiers non classés, Section III. Miracles, Section IV. Fragments non enregistrés par la copie); index of personnes citées. Red cloth stamped in gold; endpapers foxed; plasticine dj; VG. stock#45502.

Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1964. . Hard Cover. 348 p. 23 cm. The second of what was eventually nine volumes published through 1973. Instytut Matematyky (Akademieila Nauk Ukrainskoaei RSR. Stock# 32,499A. Vg / no dj.

Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1964. Hard Cover. 332 p.; 22.5 cm. The first of what was eventually nine volumes published through 1973. Instytut Matematyky (Akademieila Nauk Ukrainskoaei RSR. Stock#32499.

New York : IconEditions, c1991.. Soft Cover. xii, 162 p., [8] p. of col. plates, 92 illus.; index, 23 cm.Piero della Francesca, 1412 - 1492, "was an Italian artist from Tuscany, who pioneered the use of perspective in Renaissance art and went on to write several mathematical treatises." Select bibliography(p. 157-158). Stock# 42,237. Vg, new from publisher / soft cover.

"Supplemento agli Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Anno 1980, Fascicolo 1." "Monografia N. 4." "Summary List of Libraries, Manuscripts, and Printed Books", pages ix-xxxiii; includes seven indexes. xliv, 442 pages; 27.5 cm. Bound, with covers, in green binder's cloth; no dust jacket; New. Stock#ofc0702.

Salem [Mass., Salem Press Printing & Pub. Co.] July 1890. Periodical. civ, 496 p., index, 25 cm. Includes list of members; Evolution of Music from Dance to Symphony; Mathematical Theories of the Earth; Review of Theories of Electrical Action; Nature of Amalgams; North American Mesozoic; Some Recent Investigations Relative to Cell-Contents; Israelite & Indian. A Parallel in Planes of Culture. Sewn in printed wraps; unopened; internally clean, VG. Stock#30570.

Cambridge, Joseph Lovering; NY, Putnam, 1856. Periodical. xlvi, 311 p., charts, folding plates, 23.5 cm. Includes Benjamin Peirce on mathematics; Peters, Contributions to Atmospherology of the Sun; Olmsted, Notes on Wilmington Gunpowder Explosion; Brocklesby, Frozen Wells of Owego; Kent, Description of a New Apparatus for separating Gold & other Precious Metals from Foreign Substances; Smith, Re-Examination of American Minerals; Whitney, On Occurrence of Ores of Iron in the Azoic System; Blake, Notes upon the Grove of "Mammoth Trees" in Calaveras County, California; Hilgard, Contributions to the Physiology of Sight; Hunt, On the Use of Salt-marsh Sods for facing Steep Slopes of Parapets, Terraces, etc. Tan printed wraps soiled, spine ends chipped; part unopened; VG. Stock#33526.

Rome, 1876. Soft Cover. Scritto postumo tradotto dal Tedesco del Alfonso Sparagna, con un catalogo dei lavori dell'autore. Offprint from Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche, ed. B. Boncompagni, Anno IX, 1876. Pp. 267-308; [Bologna, Forni, 197??] Historical perspective on the development of modern geometry; published posthumously. Stock# 30,827. Vg/ wrappers. Mathematics.