Gottfried Wilhelms Baron von Leibniz Mathematischer Beweis der Erschaffung und Ordnung der Welt in einem Medallion : an den ... Herrn Rudolph August, weyland regierenden Herzog zu Braunschw. und Lüneb. ... entworfen, und an das Licht gestellet von. Rud. Aug. Noltenio ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Contributor:

Nolten, Rudolf August, -1752, editor.

Langenheim, Johann Christian, 1691-1764, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Binary system (Mathematics).

Penn Provenance:

Thenckle (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

24 pages ; 19 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Mathematischer Beweis der Erschaffung und Ordnung der Welt in einem Medallion

Fingerprint:

n.c. chon elzu Lese (3) 1734 (A)

Place of Publication:

Leipzig : Johann Christian Langenheim, 1734.

Contents:

Letter to Rudolph August von Braunschweig-Lünenburg-Wolfenbüttel, January 2, 1697.

Explication de l'Arithmetique binaire ... par M. Leibnitz, tirez des Registres de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'Année MDCCIII à Paris 1705, p. 85.

Notes:

Signatures: A-C⁴.

Engraved t.p.: Both sides of coin designed by Leibniz.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Contains Leibniz's Explication de l'Arithmetique binaire.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: leaves closely cropped at bottom margin, resulting in loss of imprint and loss of some signatures; portion of a blank leaf pasted onto foot of t.p. with imprint supplied in ms.

Culture Class Collection copy has a bookplate on front pastedown that reads "Thenckle", with shelf number "No. 348 a" supplied in ms. in pink ink.

Cited in:

Ravier, 397

OCLC:

16929242