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Id 26615
Category antiquarian book
Author / Composer SCHOTT, Gaspar (1608-1666)
Title P. Gasparis Scho[tti], Regis Curiani e Societ. Jesu ... Cursus Mathematicus, sive Absoluta omnium mathematicarum disciplinarum Encyclopaedia, In Libros XXVIII. digesta, eoque ordine disposita, ut vel mediocri praeditus ingenio, totam Mathesin a primis fundamentis proprio Marte addiscere possit ... Accesserunt in fine Theoreses mechanicae novae. Additis Indicibus locupletissimis.
Place Francofurti ad Moenum
Publisher Joannis Martini Schönwetteri
Publication Date 1699
ISBN / Plate No.
Series
Size Folio. [xii], 659, [54] pp. + plates.
Description Half vellum with marbled boards. Title-leaf larcking at outer edge and infilled; general browning and creases. An encyclopaedia intended for use by students in the numerous Jesuit colleges, including chapters on the traditional mathematical curriculum of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, as well as mechanics, warfare, navigation and surveying, with discussions and illustrations of relevant instruments.
Reference RISM B/VI/2 p.770 references ten copies (all in Germany).
Price £750.00

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