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CARDANO (GIROLAMO): ARTIS MAGNAE, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis, [colophon: Nuremburg, per Ioh. Petreium excusum, 1545], folio, FIRST EDITION, Roman letters, woodcut portrait of the author on title, woodcut initials (title slightly soiled, with repairs at margins and several old ownership inscriptions, D4 repaired at lower margin, final leaves severely dampstained and slightly wormed at inner margins, lacking final leaf V6, blank), 18th-century boards. [Riccardi I, 251: 'Rarissimo ... la prima spiegazione della risolutione dell'equazioni di 3o grado'; Dibner 103: 'the most important contribution to algebra in the 1500's'; Adams C651 (Pembroke, also lacking V6); not in the Honeyman Collection]

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CARDANO (GIROLAMO): ARTIS MAGNAE, Sive de Regulis Algebraicis, [colophon: Nuremburg, per Ioh. Petreium excusum, 1545], folio, FIRST EDITION, Roman letters, woodcut portrait of the author on title, woodcut initials (title slightly soiled, with repairs at margins and several old ownership inscriptions, D4 repaired at lower margin, final leaves severely dampstained and slightly wormed at inner margins, lacking final leaf V6, blank), 18th-century boards. [Riccardi I, 251: 'Rarissimo ... la prima spiegazione della risolutione dell'equazioni di 3o grado'; Dibner 103: 'the most important contribution to algebra in the 1500's'; Adams C651 (Pembroke, also lacking V6); not in the Honeyman Collection]

拍品專文

'Girolana Cardan (1501-76) formulated "Cardan's rule" for the solution of cubic equations, which he derived from Tartaglia, and published as his own. Cardan was an extensive traveller, and occupied chairs at Milan and Pavia. He was recognised as a distinguished astrologer, and his work on algebra, Ars Magna de rebus algebraicis, which appeared in 1545, marked the beginning of a new epoch' (Thornton and Tully).