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Auction archive: Lot number 390

WERNER, Johannes.

Estimate
€12,000 - €15,000
ca. US$13,355 - US$16,694
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 390

WERNER, Johannes.

Estimate
€12,000 - €15,000
ca. US$13,355 - US$16,694
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Libellus super vigintiduobus elementis conicis. Francfort, Friedrich Peypus pour Lucas Alansee, 1522. In-4 (198 x 149 mm) de 100 ff.n.ch. Collation: a-b8 c-z4 (z4 blanc); cartonnage ancien. VD16, W-2042; DSB, XIV, 272-277. Édition originale, très rare, du premier ouvrage moderne consacré aux sections coniques qui exerça, selon Panofsky, une grande influence sur Dürer lors de la rédaction de sa célèbre Underweysung de 1525 (voir n° 112). Le Libellus contient cinq traités importants sur les mathématiques et l'astronomie et fut très apprécié par Tycho Brahé. Le livre est orné d'un titre dans un bel encadrement gravé avec la marque d'imprimeur portée par des putti, et de nombreuses gravures sur bois dans le texte. “There can be little doubt that Dürer owes his familiarity with Apollonius's terms and definitions (parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse) to Johannes Werner” (Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic form, p. 254). Les 22 théorèmes sur les sections coniques sont suivis de 12 notes supplémentaires traitant des parallélépipèdes et des cylindres. “Werner's work was the best of its kind at the time, and its presentation surpassed that in Regiomontanus' books on triangles. In comparison with Regiomontanus' treatise, Werner's work is notable for its methodical presentation and practical applicability... The third writing in the collection of works dated 1522 [Commentario in Dionysodori problema, quo data sphaera plano sub data secatur ratione] contained an Archimedan problem already treated by Eutocius, in which a sphere is to be cut by a plane so that the volume of the two spherical sections are in given proportion to each other (De sphaera cylindro, II, 4). Werner added his own solutions, in which a parabola and hyperbola intersect each other, to those of Dionysodorus and Diocles” (DSB). Exemplaire délicatement lavé, quelques taches brunes, quelques petites déchirures marginales restaurées; petits manques à l reliure. Very rare first edition of the first modern work on conic sections, which, according to Panofsky, proved a valuable source for Dürer in the Underweysung (1525). This work contains five important mathematical and astronomical treatises by the Nuremberg mathematician Johannes Werner.

Auction archive: Lot number 390
Auction:
Datum:
14 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Salles 1 & 7 - Drouot-Richelieu - 9, rue Drouot 75009 Paris
Beschreibung:

Libellus super vigintiduobus elementis conicis. Francfort, Friedrich Peypus pour Lucas Alansee, 1522. In-4 (198 x 149 mm) de 100 ff.n.ch. Collation: a-b8 c-z4 (z4 blanc); cartonnage ancien. VD16, W-2042; DSB, XIV, 272-277. Édition originale, très rare, du premier ouvrage moderne consacré aux sections coniques qui exerça, selon Panofsky, une grande influence sur Dürer lors de la rédaction de sa célèbre Underweysung de 1525 (voir n° 112). Le Libellus contient cinq traités importants sur les mathématiques et l'astronomie et fut très apprécié par Tycho Brahé. Le livre est orné d'un titre dans un bel encadrement gravé avec la marque d'imprimeur portée par des putti, et de nombreuses gravures sur bois dans le texte. “There can be little doubt that Dürer owes his familiarity with Apollonius's terms and definitions (parabola, hyperbola, and ellipse) to Johannes Werner” (Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic form, p. 254). Les 22 théorèmes sur les sections coniques sont suivis de 12 notes supplémentaires traitant des parallélépipèdes et des cylindres. “Werner's work was the best of its kind at the time, and its presentation surpassed that in Regiomontanus' books on triangles. In comparison with Regiomontanus' treatise, Werner's work is notable for its methodical presentation and practical applicability... The third writing in the collection of works dated 1522 [Commentario in Dionysodori problema, quo data sphaera plano sub data secatur ratione] contained an Archimedan problem already treated by Eutocius, in which a sphere is to be cut by a plane so that the volume of the two spherical sections are in given proportion to each other (De sphaera cylindro, II, 4). Werner added his own solutions, in which a parabola and hyperbola intersect each other, to those of Dionysodorus and Diocles” (DSB). Exemplaire délicatement lavé, quelques taches brunes, quelques petites déchirures marginales restaurées; petits manques à l reliure. Very rare first edition of the first modern work on conic sections, which, according to Panofsky, proved a valuable source for Dürer in the Underweysung (1525). This work contains five important mathematical and astronomical treatises by the Nuremberg mathematician Johannes Werner.

Auction archive: Lot number 390
Auction:
Datum:
14 Nov 2019
Auction house:
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Salles 1 & 7 - Drouot-Richelieu - 9, rue Drouot 75009 Paris
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