Mathematics from The Owl at the Bridge

"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.

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).… Ler mais sobre este item

First Wing: The Frame of the Renaissance: Exploration and Education. Second Wing: Mathematics and Astronomy. Third Wing: Physics, Chemistry, Technology. Fourth Wing: Natural History. Fifth Wing: Anatomy and Medicine. Sixth Wing: Leonardo da Vinci: Art and Science. Appendix: Leonardo Chronology. xiv, 318 pages, index, illus. & plates; dust jacket poor, torn, chipped, clipped; book Good with bookplate of Samuel… Ler mais sobre este item

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. … Ler mais sobre este item

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.

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;… Ler mais sobre este item

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 : 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… Ler mais sobre este item

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… Ler mais sobre este item

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,… Ler mais sobre este item