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CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Opus novum de proportionibus numerorum, Basle: Henricus Petri, 1570, 2° (310 x 195mm.), FIRST EDITION, printer's device to title and verso of final leaf (4 stamps of military libraries on title, paper repair to inner blank margin of j8, occasional underlining and annotations in ink to first few leaves), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, front cover with monogram "TAAL" in blind and date "1600" in silver gilt (paper label to tail of spine). [Adams C689]

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CARDANO, Girolamo (1501-1576). Opus novum de proportionibus numerorum, Basle: Henricus Petri, 1570, 2° (310 x 195mm.), FIRST EDITION, printer's device to title and verso of final leaf (4 stamps of military libraries on title, paper repair to inner blank margin of j8, occasional underlining and annotations in ink to first few leaves), contemporary blind-stamped pigskin, front cover with monogram "TAAL" in blind and date "1600" in silver gilt (paper label to tail of spine). [Adams C689]

拍品專文

First edition of the Opus novum, containing Cardano's major contribution to mechanics, and the revised second edition of the Artis Magnae, the most important contribution to algebra in the 16th century. "In his Opus novum de proportionibus, Cardano turned to problems of mechanics, with the principal aim of applying quantitive methods to the study of physics. His use of the concept of moment of a force in his study of the conditions of equilibrium in balance and his attempt to determine experimentally the relation between the densities of air and water are noteworthy." (DSB)