Geometria
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Type of record: Book
Title: Geometria
Other titles: Géométrie
Classmark: All Souls Science 3/DES
Creator(s): Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Additional creator(s): Beaune, Florimond de (1601-1652) (Other); Schooten, Frans van (1615-1660) (Other); Hudde, Johan (1704) (Other); Heuraet, Hendrik van (1633-) (Other); Witt, Johan de (1625-1672) (Other); Bartholin, Erasmus (1625-1698) (Other)
Related people: Beaune, Florimond de; Schooten, Frans van; Hudde, Johan; Heuraet, Hendrik van; Witt, Johan de; Bartholin, Erasmus
Publisher: apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios
Publication city: Amstelædami
Date(s): 1659-1661
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 2 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/243885
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991014749709705181
Description
Title vignette: Elsevier device (Minerva, Rahir 19).
Vol. 1: [16], 520 p.; v. 2: [18?], 420, [4] p.
Half title reads: Renati Des-Cartes Geometria. Editio secunda, multis accessionibus exornata, & plus alterâ sui parte adaucta.
Vol. 2 has half title only; each of the four treatises in v. 2. has special t.p: 1. Principia matheseos universalis... conscripta ab Fr. Bartholino (1661); 2. De Æquationum natura, constitutione, & limitibus... Incoepta a Florimondo de Beaune (1659); 3. Johannis de Witt Elementa curvarum linearum (1659); 4. Francisci à Schooten ... Tractatus de concinnandis geometricis (1661).
Title in red and black.
Errata: v. 2, p. [421].
Brunet II, column 610.
Additional description
Bound with one other publication by Descartes. Volume contents: 1. Geometria, v.1-2, 1659-61 -- 2. Musicae compendium, 1656
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