[1890]. Important autograph manuscript by “the greatest woman mathematician prior to the twentieth century” (DSB) and the first woman in Europe to obtain a doctorate in mathematics. This paper complements and completes her most famous work, ‘Sur le problème de la rotation d’un corps solide autour d’un point fixe’ (Acta..... More about Sur une proprieté du système d'equations différentielles qui définit la rotation d'un corps...
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Paris: L’imprimerie Royale / Jean Boudot, 1696/1700. A fine sammelband comprising the first editions of the first books on the differential and integral calculus, respectively. “It was through his wide network of acquaintances in various European countries that Leibniz put into effect all his strategies for the spread of his..... More about Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes. Paris: L’imprimerie...
Item #2848

Paris; Paris: Veuve Desaint; de l’Imprimerie de la République, 1788; An V [1797]. An exceptional volume, in a fine contemporary binding, containing the first edition of Lagrange’s masterpiece, the Méchanique, “one of the outstanding landmarks in the history of both mathematics and mechanics” (Sarton, p. 470) and “perhaps the most..... More about Méchanique analitique. [Bound with:] Théorie des fonctions analytiques.
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Leipzig: Christopher Günther for J. Gross & J. F. Gleditsch, 1684. First edition of Leibniz’s invention of the differential calculus. “Leibniz was an almost universal genius whose place in the history of mathematics depends on his being an independent inventor of the infinitesimal calculus and on his contributions to combinatorial..... More about Nova methodus pro maximis et minimis, itemque tangentibus, quae nec fractas nec irrationales...
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Kazan: Universitetskai a tip. 1835. First edition, incredibly rare offprint, of this important book-length memoir on the foundations of calculus and real analysis by the first inventor of non-euclidean geometry. “As early as 1835, Lobachevsky showed in a memoir [the offered work] the necessity of distinguishing between continuity and differentiability”... More about Sposob uviersit'sia v izchezanii bezkonechnykh strok i priblizhat'sia k znacheniiu funktsii ot...
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London: Printed for the author’s children and sold by A. Millar, et al. 1748. First edition, large-paper copy, of Maclaurin’s statement of Newtonian theory, one of the three “most outstanding popular introductions to Newtonian science of the eighteenth century” (I. B. Cohen, Franklin and Newton, 1956, p. 209). “Though a...... More about An Account of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books.
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Edinburgh: Printed by T.W. and T. Ruddimans, 1742. First edition, a very fine large and thick paper copy, of “the earliest logical and systematic publication of the Newtonian methods. It stood as a model of rigor until the appearance of Cauchy’s Cours d’Analyse in 1821” (DSB). The Treatise was written..... More about A Treatise of Fluxions. In Two Books.
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Venice: Franciscum Franciscium Senensem, 1575. First and only edition (see Rara Aritmetica) of the first clear statement of the principle of mathematical induction. “Francesco Maurolico is generally recognized to have been one of the foremost mathematicians of the sixteenth century” (Rosen); Cajori has called him ‘the greatest geometer of the..... More about Opuscula mathematica; nunc primum in lucem aedita, cum rerum omnium notatu dignarum. Indice...
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Leipzig: F.W. Vogel, 1909. First edition of Minkowski’s famous lecture on his theory of four-dimensional space-time, the first published account of this theory to be illustrated with ‘spacetime diagrams’, which were widely used later by Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose and others in the development of general relativity. “In ‘Space and..... More about Raum und Zeit.
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Edinburgh; Padua: Andrew Hart; Giacomo Cadorino, 1619; [1667]. First edition, extremely rare, of this complement to Napier’s epoch-making Mirifici logorithmorum canonis descriptio (1614) – while the Descriptio gave the first ever table of logarithms, it was in the Constructio that Napier explained the method of their construction. It is here... More about Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio; et eorum ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines;...
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Cambridge / London: Typis Academicus / Benjamin Tooke, 1707. First edition of Newton’s treatise on algebra, or ‘universal arithmetic,’ his “most often read and republished mathematical work” (Whiteside). “Included are ‘Newton’s identities’ providing expressions for the sums of the ith powers of the roots of any polynomial equation, for any..... More about Arithmetica Universalis; sive de Compositione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber. Ciu accessit...
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First edition. Antwerp: heirs of Arnold Birckman, 1567. Exceptionally fine copy, bound in citron morocco for Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617), of this rare and celebrated treatise on algebra. “Considered the greatest of Portuguese mathematicians, Nuñez reveals in his discoveries, theories, and publications that he was a first-rate geographer, physicist, cosmologist..... More about Libro de algebra en arithmetica y geometria.
Item #3645

First edition. Cologne [Paris]: Pierre de la Vallée, [1656-]1657. A beautiful copy of Pascal’s 18 Provincial letters, bound in fine red morocco in 1865 by Chambolle-Duru, from the collection of Benzon (his sales catalogue no. 42, 1875) with two further rare works relating to Pascal. Provenance: inscription to title ‘Ex..... More about Les Provinciales ou lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux...
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