![[ARCHIMEDES, ca 287-212 B.C.]. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Campanum Archimedem Syracusanum atque Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Edited by Pomponius Gauricus. Venice: M. Sessa, 28 August 1503.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/NYR/2003_NYR_01201_0007_000(054044).jpg?w=1)
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[ARCHIMEDES, ca 287-212 B.C.]. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Campanum Archimedem Syracusanum atque Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Edited by Pomponius Gauricus. Venice: M. Sessa, 28 August 1503.
4o (204 x 144 mm). Large woodcut and printer's device on title, diagrams in text, woodcut initials. (Some browning and dampstaining, marginal worming to f1-h4). Old vellum (worn). Provenance: early marginalia on title.
THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF ARCHIMEDES, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, containing both De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, based on the 13th-century translation by William Moerbeke, together with similar works by Campanus and Boethius including one of the earliest theoretical calculations on the quadrature of the circle. Adams C-470; Riccardi I:40 and 220; Sander 1574.
4o (204 x 144 mm). Large woodcut and printer's device on title, diagrams in text, woodcut initials. (Some browning and dampstaining, marginal worming to f1-h4). Old vellum (worn). Provenance: early marginalia on title.
THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF ARCHIMEDES, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, containing both De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, based on the 13th-century translation by William Moerbeke, together with similar works by Campanus and Boethius including one of the earliest theoretical calculations on the quadrature of the circle. Adams C-470; Riccardi I:40 and 220; Sander 1574.