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NUÑEZ, Salaciense Pedro (1502-1578). Libro de algebra en arithmetica y geometria. Antwerp: heirs of Arnold Birckman, 1567.
8o (157 x 99 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut diagrams in text. Later calf (rebacked, some rubbing). Provenance: THOMAS DIGGES (1543-1595), mathematician (ownership inscription dated 1575 on title, cut by the binder); John, third Earl of Bute (1713-1792; his sale Sotheby's London, 4 July 1961, lot 394); Robert Honeyman (his sale, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1980, lot 2354).
AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY LINKING TWO OF THE GREATEST SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MATHEMATICIANS, NUÑEZ AND DIGGES
FIRST EDITION. Nuñez, the greatest Portuguese mathematician of the sixteenth century, was born in Alcácer do Sol, Portugal and studied at Salamanca, and in 1524 or 1525 at Lisbon. He was appointed royal cosmographer in 1529. He held a professorship in Lisbon, which was moved to Coimbra in 1537. He taught Clavius, Nicolaus Coelho de Amaral, Manuel de Figueredo and Joao de Castro, one of the greatest Portuguese navigators. "Considered the greatest of Portuguese mathematicians, Nunez reveals in his discoveries, theories, and publications that he was a first-rate geographer, physicist, cosmologist, geometer and algebraist" (DSB). The edition was divided between the heirs of Birckman and the heirs of Johann Steelsius.
THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY, FROM THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS DIGGES, who was one of the most important English mathematicians of the 16th century. He wrote several important books on mathematics, surveying, and ballistics. In his Alae sue scalae mathematicae, published in 1573, Digges describes and illustrates the diagonal scale, which was based on the Nonius, invented by Nuñez and first described by him in 1542. Adams N-373; Belgica typographia 2225; Palau 196753; Peeters-Fontainas 845.
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AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY LINKING TWO OF THE GREATEST SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MATHEMATICIANS, NUÑEZ AND DIGGES
FIRST EDITION. Nuñez, the greatest Portuguese mathematician of the sixteenth century, was born in Alcácer do Sol, Portugal and studied at Salamanca, and in 1524 or 1525 at Lisbon. He was appointed royal cosmographer in 1529. He held a professorship in Lisbon, which was moved to Coimbra in 1537. He taught Clavius, Nicolaus Coelho de Amaral, Manuel de Figueredo and Joao de Castro, one of the greatest Portuguese navigators. "Considered the greatest of Portuguese mathematicians, Nunez reveals in his discoveries, theories, and publications that he was a first-rate geographer, physicist, cosmologist, geometer and algebraist" (DSB). The edition was divided between the heirs of Birckman and the heirs of Johann Steelsius.
THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY, FROM THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS DIGGES, who was one of the most important English mathematicians of the 16th century. He wrote several important books on mathematics, surveying, and ballistics. In his Alae sue scalae mathematicae, published in 1573, Digges describes and illustrates the diagonal scale, which was based on the Nonius, invented by Nuñez and first described by him in 1542. Adams N-373; Belgica typographia 2225; Palau 196753; Peeters-Fontainas 845.