Author: WITT, J. DE, (Fr. van Schooten Jr. ed.),
Title: Elementa curvarum linearum... 2) F.DE BEAUNE, De aequationum natura, constitutionw, & limitibus...3) F. VAN SCHOOTEN, Tractatus de concinnandis demonstrationibus geometricis... 4) ST.GILLET, Celeberrimi de centro oscillationis problematis solutio.
Description: Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1683. ad 1) w. numer. textills., idem 3 and 4) numer. textills. 4 vols. in 1. 4to. Nice Modern half clf. (w. green mor. spine label.). (IV, 181; XIV, 89; IV, 175; 8 pp.). BdH 4220: 2nd volume of the 3rd edition of Schooten's "Geometria...", without the 'Principia matheseos universalis' by E. Bartholinus. 1) DSB XIV, pp. 465 - 467: 'De Witt's most important mathematical work was his 'Elementa...' ; considered the first textbook in analytic geometry.': 2nd edition: 2) DSB III, 614 - 616: '... two short papers on algebra, ed. by E.Bartholin, that are D's only posthumous publication.', 2nd edition: 3) DSB XII, pp. 205 - 207: Hofmann, 6: '... Arbeit ..., die sich mit zweckmäszen Anwendungen des Buchstabenrechnens befaszt ...': 2nd edition.: 4) Joecher II, 999: Not part of the 'Geometria...' but clearly a Blaeu edition from approximately the same year.:

Keywords: 17th c mathematics lines W67