Francisci Vietae Opera mathematica : in unum volumen congesta, ac recognita / operâ atque studio Francisci à Schooten ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viète, François, 1540-1603.

Contributor:

Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Opera mathematica

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Calendar, Gregorian.

Penn Provenance:

Krumbhaar, Edward Bell (donor) (autograph) (Elzevier copy)

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (stamp) (Elzevier copy 2)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 554, that is, 544 pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Lugduni Batavorum : Ex officinâ Bonaventurae & Abrahami Elzeviriorum, 1646.

Contents:

I. Isagoge in artem analyticam

II. Ad logisticen speciosam notae priores

III. Zeteticorum libri quinque

IV. De aequationum recognitione, & emendatione tractatus duo

V. De numerosâ potestatum ad exegesin resolutione

VI. Effectionum geometricarum canonica recensio

VII. Supplementum geometriae

VIII. Pseudo-mesolabum & alia quaedam adjuncta capitula

IX. Theoremata ad sectiones angulares

X. Responsum ad problema, quod omnibus mathematicis totius orbis construendum proposuit Adrianus Romanus

XI. Apollonius Gallus

XII. Variorum de rebus mathematicis responsorum liber VIII

XIII. Munimen adversùs nova cyclometrica

XIV. Ratio kalendarij verè Gregoriani

XV. Kalendarium Gregorianum perpetuum

XVI. Adversùs Christophorum Clavium expostulatio.

Notes:

Signatures: *⁶ A-3Y⁴.

Some text and t.p. in red and black.

Woodcuts: initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Page numbers 113-122 omitted from sequence.

Errata on p. 554 [i.e. 544].

Local Notes:

Booksellers' descriptions on inside front cover and prelim. free endpaper.

Cited in:

Houzeau & Lancaster. Astronomie (1964 ed.), 3380

Grässe, VI, pt. 2, p. 312

BN CCVIII, col. 964

Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 4923

Willems, A. Elzevier, 609

Rahir, E. Elzevier, 606

OCLC:

3501032