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MAGNITSKII, Leontii Filipovich (1669-1739). Arifmetika; Sirech nauka chislitel'naia. [Arithmetic, called the computational science.] Moscow: Sinodal'na, 1703.
2° (310 x 197mm). Printed in red and black within typographic borders. Frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams, 3 double-page tables. (Title and frontispiece re-margined, a few other margins repaired, leaf 30 with loss in the fore-margin, some soiling, spotting and dampstaining.) Contemporary Russian calf with catches (spine defective, worn, lacking clasps, endpapers sometime repaired). Provenance: an early reader (some marginalia) -- Anna Aleksandrovna Orlova (inscription dated 1929 recording the gift to:) -- Boris Alekseevich Elovskii.
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BOOKS PRINTED DURING THE REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT, AND THE FIRST GUIDE TO MATHEMATICS PUBLISHED IN RUSSIA. It served as the basic textbook on the subject for over half a century; Lomonosov called it, along with Smotritskii's grammar, 'our gateways to learning'. Arifmetika is a landmark of printing in Russia, and the first Russian publication to use Arabic numerals instead of the traditional Cyrillic alphabetic numbers. Besides arithmetic it also includes algebra, geometry, mechanics, and some navigation. Drage 390; Fekula 4950; Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka 160; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Moia Biblioteka, 7; Sopikov 99; Zernova-Kameneva 15.
2° (310 x 197mm). Printed in red and black within typographic borders. Frontispiece, 2 engraved plates, woodcut diagrams, 3 double-page tables. (Title and frontispiece re-margined, a few other margins repaired, leaf 30 with loss in the fore-margin, some soiling, spotting and dampstaining.) Contemporary Russian calf with catches (spine defective, worn, lacking clasps, endpapers sometime repaired). Provenance: an early reader (some marginalia) -- Anna Aleksandrovna Orlova (inscription dated 1929 recording the gift to:) -- Boris Alekseevich Elovskii.
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS BOOKS PRINTED DURING THE REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT, AND THE FIRST GUIDE TO MATHEMATICS PUBLISHED IN RUSSIA. It served as the basic textbook on the subject for over half a century; Lomonosov called it, along with Smotritskii's grammar, 'our gateways to learning'. Arifmetika is a landmark of printing in Russia, and the first Russian publication to use Arabic numerals instead of the traditional Cyrillic alphabetic numbers. Besides arithmetic it also includes algebra, geometry, mechanics, and some navigation. Drage 390; Fekula 4950; Rossiiskaia Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka 160; Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Moia Biblioteka, 7; Sopikov 99; Zernova-Kameneva 15.
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