Schooten (Franz van, editor) -- Descartes (René): Geometria à Renato des Cartes, cum notis Florimondi de Beaune, opera atque studio Francisci à Schooten, Leyden, Ioannis Maire, 1649, 4to, first edition in Latin, collation: *4, **2, A-2T4, 2V1 (lacking 2v2, [?] blank), title in red and black with device, woodcut geometrical diagrams (title soiled and with date repeated in pencil at foot, margins browned, 19th-century half morocco (drab) [Tchemerzine IV, 305 (erratic collation); Wolf 196; Honeyman 858]; and 4 others, one by Schooten. (4)

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Schooten (Franz van, editor) -- Descartes (René): Geometria à Renato des Cartes, cum notis Florimondi de Beaune, opera atque studio Francisci à Schooten, Leyden, Ioannis Maire, 1649, 4to, first edition in Latin, collation: *4, **2, A-2T4, 2V1 (lacking 2v2, [?] blank), title in red and black with device, woodcut geometrical diagrams (title soiled and with date repeated in pencil at foot, margins browned, 19th-century half morocco (drab) [Tchemerzine IV, 305 (erratic collation); Wolf 196; Honeyman 858]; and 4 others, one by Schooten. (4)

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Franz van Schooten succeeded his father (who had taught mathematics to Huygens, Hudde, and Sluze) as professor at Leyden in 1646. He died in 1661.

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