拍品 160
  • 160

DOU, TRACTAT VOM MACHEN, AMSTERDAM, 1616

估價
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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描述

  • Tractat vom machen und Gebrauch eines neugeordneten mathematischen Instruments: Inn welchem underschiedliche Kunstliche stuck die Geometriae betreffende verfasset und begriffen seind Niderländisch beschrieben und in druck gegeben. Amsterdam: Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1616
4to (198 x 157mm.), folding engraved plate, diagrams in the text, recent vellum-backed boards

來源

bought from Jonathan Hill, New York, 1996, Catalogue 97, item 31

出版

Tomash & Williams D63; Hoogendoorn pp.303-304 Dou02G; STCN 080359337; VD17 39:121580Z

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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拍品資料及來源

The author worked as a surveyor in Leiden and developed a new instrument for that purpose. Translated from the Dutch (Leiden 1612) into German by Sebastianus Curtius; see Kurt Hawlitscheck, "Sebastain Kurz (1576-1659) Rechenmeister und Visitator der deutschen Schulen in Nürnberg" in Rechenbücher und mathematische Texte der frühen Neuzeit, edited by Rainer Gebhardt (Annaberg-Buchholz 1999), pp.257-266.