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Geometria

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Type of record: Book

Title: Geometria

Other titles: Géométrie

Level: Piece

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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