A sammelband of five mathematical texts, in Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper. Comprising: Boethius, De Institutione Arithmetica; Grosseteste, Compotus; [Anon.] Tables for the comparison of Christian and Arabic years, tables of conjunction and opposition with explanatory notes; De Pulchro Rivo, Computus Manualis; Fibonacci, Liber Abbaci, chapters 14 & 15.
[Italy: late 14th century for the first four works, late 15th century for the Fibonacci]. An extraordinary and highly important illustrated sammelband of mediaeval mathematical texts, including the two final and most advanced chapters of the Liber Abaci of Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci (c.1170-c.1250), “the first great..... More
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