ARCHIMÈDE (287?-212 av.J.-C.). Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata... adiecta sunt Eutocii Ascalonitae in eosdem Archimedis libros commentaria, item Graece & Latine, nunquam antea excusa. Bâle: Johann Herwagen, mars 1544.
ARCHIMÈDE (287?-212 av.J.-C.). Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata... adiecta sunt Eutocii Ascalonitae in eosdem Archimedis libros commentaria, item Graece & Latine, nunquam antea excusa. Bâle: Johann Herwagen, mars 1544.

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ARCHIMÈDE (287?-212 av.J.-C.). Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata... adiecta sunt Eutocii Ascalonitae in eosdem Archimedis libros commentaria, item Graece & Latine, nunquam antea excusa. Bâle: Johann Herwagen, mars 1544.

In-folio (322 x 212 mm). Marque d'imprimeur sur le dernier feuillet, nombreux diagrammes dans le texte. (Quelques trous de ver touchant quelques lettres.) Vélin ancien, tranches dorées et gaufrées probablement au XVIe siècle, (mors partiellement fendus), étui en demi-maroquin rouge. Provenance: bibliothèque jésuite (inscription sur la page de titre) -- P.J. Pierre Daniel Huët (grand ex-libris gravé indiquant le don de sa bibliothèque à la Société de Jésus en 1692) -- Jean-Michel Cantacuzène (ex-libris).

ÉDITION PRINCEPS des sept textes d'Archimèdes en grec, accompagnée de la traduction en latin par Jacopo da Cremona qui fut ensuite corrigée par Regiomontanus, avec les commentaires du mathématicien Eutocius d'Ascalon (actif au VIe siècle). C'est cette édition qui exerça une forte influence sur les scientifiques modernes, notamment Kepler, qui appliqua à la ligne les théorèmes pour déterminer n'importe quel point sur l'orbite de Mars. BEL EXEMPLAIRE à GRANDES MARGES. Dibner 137; Horblit 5; Norman 61; PMM 72.
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Editio princeps of seven mathematical works by Archimedes and three works by Eutocius Ascalonites, including his commentary on Archimedes. First edition of Jacopo da Cremona's Latin translations as corrected by Johannes Regiomontanus. The book is dedicated by the editor, Thomas Gechauff called Venatorius, to the Senate of Nuremberg. The Greek manuscript from which this edition was printed had been acquired in Rome by Willibald Pirckheimer and survives today in Nuremberg City Library. The transmission of these texts greatly influenced subsequent work by Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Among Archimedes' contributions were a a method for calculating centers of gravity, an approximation of the value of pi, a system for expressing very large numbers, geometrical analysis of mechanical problems, a forerunner of the calculus and other inventions. The present copy was donated in 1692 to a Jesuit house in Paris by the Bishop of Avranches, Pierre-Daniel Huet (his engraved armorial presentation bookplate inside the front cover), whose poetry, historical and philosophical works were published in Paris, Amsterdam and London.

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