The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 2: Mathematics General Collection
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Title:
Les œuvres mathematiques de Simon Stevin de Bruges ::ou sont inserées les memoires mathematiques, esquelles s'est exercé le tres-haut & tres-illustre prince Maurice de Nassau, Prince d'Aurence, Gouverneur des Provinces des Païs-bas unis, General par mer & par Terre, &c
Creator:
Stevin, Simon,1548-1620.
Diophantus,of Alexandria.Arithmetica.French.
Maurice,Prince of Orange,1567-1625.
- Girard, Albert,1595-1632.
- Elzevir, Abraham,1592-1652,printer.
- Elzevir, Bonaventure,1583-1652,printer.
- Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617,former owner.
- Libri, Guillaume,1803-1869,former owner.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- Girard, Albert,1595-1632.
- Elzevir, Abraham,1592-1652,printer.
- Elzevir, Bonaventure,1583-1652,printer.
- Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617,former owner.
- Libri, Guillaume,1803-1869,former owner.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
Date:
1634
Date in Source:
Anno 1634.
Place:
Leiden.
Country:
Netherlands
Imprint:
A Leyde : Chez Bonaventure & Abraham Elsevier, imprimeurs ordinaires de l'Université,
Language:
French
Subject:
Cosmography - Early works to 1800.
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Fortification - Early works to 1800.
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Mathematics - Early works to 1800.
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Mechanics - Early works to 1800.
Format:
6 v. in 1 ([8], 222, [2], 678, [2] p.) :ill. (woodcuts), diagrams ;37 cm. (fol.)
Note:
- Includes indexes.
- Signatures: *[sup]4 A-S[sup]6 T[sup]4 a-3l[sup]6.
- Title page in red and black.
- Text printed in double columns.
- Printer's device on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
- The 'M' and 'D' in the date are made up of reverse 'C'.
- With half-title.
- Vols. 2-6 paged continuously. Contents: I. L'arithmetique. Les six livres d'Algebre de Diophante d'Alexandrie: dont les quatre premiers sont de la traduction de Simon Stevin; & les deux derniers sont nouvellement traduicts par Albert Girard. La practique d'arithmetique de Simon Stevin. -- II. La cosmographie, contenant: La doctrine des triangles, La geographie, & L'astronomie. -- III. La practique de geometrie. -- IV. L'art ponderaire, ou la statique. -- V. L'optique. -- VI. La castrametation. La fortification par escluses. La fortification
- Translation of: Hypomnemata mathematica, which was collected and translated from the original Dutch. Vol. 1 appeared separately in 1625; v. 2-5 form part of the Memoirs of Prince Maurice of Nassau; the parts of v. 6 were printed separately in 1618. cf. Willems, 413.
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan, with his note pasted on half-title: "De Thou's copy, bought at Libri's sale".
- ULL copy is bound in polished calf, rebacked, with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou in gilt on centre of upper and lower boards. Written on front board: V.B.54. Binding described in University of London. Historical and armorial bookbindings, no. 35.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004460409_MOR2-b28004243
- Includes indexes.
- Signatures: *[sup]4 A-S[sup]6 T[sup]4 a-3l[sup]6.
- Title page in red and black.
- Text printed in double columns.
- Printer's device on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials.
- The 'M' and 'D' in the date are made up of reverse 'C'.
- With half-title.
- Vols. 2-6 paged continuously. Contents: I. L'arithmetique. Les six livres d'Algebre de Diophante d'Alexandrie: dont les quatre premiers sont de la traduction de Simon Stevin; & les deux derniers sont nouvellement traduicts par Albert Girard. La practique d'arithmetique de Simon Stevin. -- II. La cosmographie, contenant: La doctrine des triangles, La geographie, & L'astronomie. -- III. La practique de geometrie. -- IV. L'art ponderaire, ou la statique. -- V. L'optique. -- VI. La castrametation. La fortification par escluses. La fortification
- Translation of: Hypomnemata mathematica, which was collected and translated from the original Dutch. Vol. 1 appeared separately in 1625; v. 2-5 form part of the Memoirs of Prince Maurice of Nassau; the parts of v. 6 were printed separately in 1618. cf. Willems, 413.
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan, with his note pasted on half-title: "De Thou's copy, bought at Libri's sale".
- ULL copy is bound in polished calf, rebacked, with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou in gilt on centre of upper and lower boards. Written on front board: V.B.54. Binding described in University of London. Historical and armorial bookbindings, no. 35.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004460409_MOR2-b28004243
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