Lot 1342
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Compendiaria sive Tyrocinia mathematica tabulis [...].
STURM, Johann Christoph
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Leipzig, Coburg, at the expense of P.G. Pfotenhauer, 1707
Folio: 69 pp. (browning and spotting, stamp on title cut out and underl., some ms. annotations).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 6 raised bands, red edges (sides rubbed, some def. at spine, sl. repaired).
Fifth ed. by the German philosopher, professor at University of Altdorf and founder of a short-lived scientific academy known as the Collegium Curiosum, J.Chr. Sturm (163-1703). On the different branches of pure and applied mathematics, such as geometry, arithmetics, algebra, trigonometry, optics, statics, mechanics, etc. Illustrated with 19 full-page and 2 half-page engr.
Ref. Cp. VD18 1038359X (4th ed.). - Not in Poggendorff.
Bound with: Id. - Scientia cosmica sive Astronomia tam theorica quam sphaerica [...]. Nuremberg, W.M. Endterus, 1708. 32 pp. (D1 of part 2 wrongly bound, some spotting, ms. annotations in the margins of some pp.). Later ed. (first 1670). Illustrated with 2 full-page astronomical engr. Ref. Cp. VD18 10383611C (4th ed.), Poggendorff II:1043 (1st ed.), Houzeau & Lancaster 9234 (1st ed.).