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COTES, Roger (1682-1716). Harmonia mensurarum, sive analysis & synthesis per rationum & angulorum mensuras promotae: accedunt alia opuscula mathematica. Edited by Robert Smith. Cambridge: n.p, 1722.
4o (238 x 190 mm). 1 folding engraved plate, woodcut diagrams in text. (Minor marginal dampstaining at beginning and end of text.) Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Kirkwall (bookplate); J.S. Harrison, Brandsburton Hall (bookplate); Charles N. Haskins (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this posthumously published collection of Cotes' mathematical papers edited by Robert Smith. It "... contains 'Logometria,' the only one of Cotes' works published during his lifetime ... The work also contains 'Cotes's theorem,' equivalent to finding all the factors of xn - an when n is a positive integer, as well as the first version of the Newton-Cotes formula for evaluating the area under a curve of nth degree and a method for evaluating the most probable result of a set of operations that closely approaches that of least squares" (Norman). Norman 519.
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FIRST EDITION of this posthumously published collection of Cotes' mathematical papers edited by Robert Smith. It "... contains 'Logometria,' the only one of Cotes' works published during his lifetime ... The work also contains 'Cotes's theorem,' equivalent to finding all the factors of x