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HARRIOT (THOMAS): ARTIS ANALYTICAE PRAXIS, ad aequationes Algebraïcas novâ, expeditâ, & generali methodo, resolvendas, London, apud Robertum Barker et Haered. Io. Billii, 1631, folio, FIRST EDITION, with two blanks before title, errata leaf and final two blanks (some manuscript calculations in a 17th century hand in text margins and on blank leaves, but no library markings, 2L2 with clean tear near lower margin, 2U2 cropped at lower margin with loss of catch numbers), contemporary calf (spine rubbed). [STC 12784; Sabin 30376; not in Honeyman]

细节
HARRIOT (THOMAS): ARTIS ANALYTICAE PRAXIS, ad aequationes Algebraïcas novâ, expeditâ, & generali methodo, resolvendas, London, apud Robertum Barker et Haered. Io. Billii, 1631, folio, FIRST EDITION, with two blanks before title, errata leaf and final two blanks (some manuscript calculations in a 17th century hand in text margins and on blank leaves, but no library markings, 2L2 with clean tear near lower margin, 2U2 cropped at lower margin with loss of catch numbers), contemporary calf (spine rubbed). [STC 12784; Sabin 30376; not in Honeyman]

拍品专文

The 'incomparable' John Harriot (1560-1621), Sir Walter Raleigh's mathematical tutor, was sent by him to Virginia as a surveyor with Sir Richard Grenville's expedition in 1585. The posthumous publication of his great work on algebra, 10 years after his death, was due to Sir Thomas Aylesbury. 'It virtually gave to algebra its modern form ... He first brought over to one side, and then equated to zero all the terms of an equation; he adverted to the existence of negative roots, improved algebraical notation, and invented the signs of inequality' (DNB).