ARCHIMEDES Opera. Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri IIII. Theodosii Sphaerica: methodo novo illustrata... per Is. Barrow, 29 folding engraved diagrams, without blanks, or the leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols before A3, plates lightly browned, one taped at fold, another with small loss owing to paper flaw, contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC R6704; Babson 249], 4to, W. Godbid for R. Scott, 1675 Fußnoten Includes Barrow's Lectiones opticae, which were revised and corrected by Newton; "these lectures, in Latin, form [Barrow's] most important book, in which some of his remarkable optical discoveries are published for the first time and which undoubtedly influenced Newton" (Babson). Provenance: I. Lecourt, ownership inscription on title.
ARCHIMEDES Opera. Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri IIII. Theodosii Sphaerica: methodo novo illustrata... per Is. Barrow, 29 folding engraved diagrams, without blanks, or the leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols before A3, plates lightly browned, one taped at fold, another with small loss owing to paper flaw, contemporary calf, skilfully rebacked preserving original spine [ESTC R6704; Babson 249], 4to, W. Godbid for R. Scott, 1675 Fußnoten Includes Barrow's Lectiones opticae, which were revised and corrected by Newton; "these lectures, in Latin, form [Barrow's] most important book, in which some of his remarkable optical discoveries are published for the first time and which undoubtedly influenced Newton" (Babson). Provenance: I. Lecourt, ownership inscription on title.
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