Geometria

Alternate Title:

Renati Des-Cartes Geometria : editio secunda, multis accessionibus exornata, & plus alterâ sui parte adaucta.; Renati Des-Cartes Geometriae pars secunda : cujus contenta sequens pagina exhibebit

Creator:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650 (author); Hudde, Johan, 1628-1704 (author); Heuraet, Hendrik van, 1633-1660? (author); Bartholin, Erasmus, 1625-1698 (author)

Contributor:

Beaune, Florimond de, 1601-1652 (translator); Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660 (editor); Elzevir, Louis, 1604-1670 (printer); Elzevir, Daniel, 1626-1680 (printer)

Name:

Beaune, Florimond de, 1601-1652; Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660; Witt, Johan de, 1625-1672

Date:

1659/1661

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966 (autograph) (Elzevier copy)

Publisher:

Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios

Subject:

Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Geometry, Analytic -- Early works to 1800; Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Geometry; Geometry, Analytic; Mathematics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, 1 portrait; 21 cm (4to)

Related Place:

Netherlands -- Amsterdam.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Includes Latin translation of: Géométrie.; Part 2 has half-title leaf only; each of the four treatises special dated title leaf, but signatures and pagination are continuous.; Signatures: part 1: *-2*⁴ A-3T⁴; part 2: pi1 *-2*⁴ A-3G⁴.; Pagination: part 1: [16], 520 pages; part 2: [18], 420, [4] pages.; Engraved portrait.; Woodcut title vignettes (printer's device: Rahir M.19), illustrations, initials, head-piece and tail-pieces.; Title of part 1 in red and black.; Printed marginalia.; Errata at end of part 2 (leaf 3G3r).; Table of contents: (from part 1, leaf *3v) Renati Des Cartes Geometria, tribus libris comprehensa -- Florimondi de Beaune in illam Notæ breves -- Francisci à Schooten in eandem Commentarii recogniti & aucti -- Ejusdem Appendix de cubicarum æquationum resolutione -- Item Additamentum in quo continentur solutio artificiosissima difficilis cujusdam problematais & generalis regula de extrahendis quibuscunque radicibus binomiis -- Johannis Huddenii Epistolæ duæ, quarum altera de æquationum reductione, altera de maximis & minimis agit -- Henrici van Heuraet Epistola de curvarum linearum in rectas transmutatione -- Francisci à Schooten Principia matheseos universalis seu Introductio ad Cartesianæ geometriæ methodum [conscripta ab Erasmio Bartholino] -- Florimondi de Beaune duo tractatus posthumi, alter de natura & constitutione, alter de limitibus æquationum -- Johannis de Witt De elementis curvarum linearum libri duo -- Francisci à Schooten Tractatus de concinnandis demonstrationibus geometricis ex calculo algebraïco.; Elzevier copy: part 1: manuscript bibliographical and sale notes in ink and pencil on front pastedown; bibliographical note in blue ink on front free endpaper.; Elzevier copy: part 1: manuscript bibliographical notes in ink and pencil on front pastedown.; Elzevier copy has autograph ("E.B. Krumbhaar M.D.") on front pastedown of part 1; autograph ("E.B. Krumbhaar") on front pastedown of part 2.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Elzevier Collection, Elz Q 1350

Collection:

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)