拍品 298
  • 298

JACOB, RECHENBUCH, FRANKFURT, 1565

估價
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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描述

  • Ein new und wohl gegrundt Rechenbuch, auff den Linien un(d) Ziffern, sampt der welschen practic und allerley vortheilen, neben der extraction radicum, un(d) von den proportionen, mit vilen lustigen fragen und auffgaben &c. Frankfurt: Georg Rab for Sigmund Feyerabend and Simon Hüter, 1565
FIRST EDITION, 4to (200 x 155mm.), title printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, woodcut printer’s device on colophon, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, modern folding cloth box, title and colophon a little frayed

來源

Reuter, armorial bookplate; bought from Bernard Quaritch, London, 1987

出版

Tomash & Williams J4; Hoock & Jeannin J1.5; Richter, Christian Egenolffs Erben, 207; Smith, Rara arithmetica, p.295; USTC 689938; VD16 J29; Rainer Gebhardt, "Simon Jacob 1510-1564" in Rechenbücher und mathematische Texte der frühen Neuzeit, edited by Rainer Gebhardt (Annaberg-Buchholz, 1999), pp.151-166

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

Simon Jacob was a well-known reckoning master who had published an arithmetic at Frankfurt in 1557 (revised 1559; reprinted 1565, 1574, 1579, etc.). Shortly after his death (24 June 1564), his brother Pangratz Jacob van Coburg brought out this vastly expanded version, which he dedicated to the mayor of Coburg. Jost Bürgi is believed to have derived his treatment of series and the nature of exponents from it (Smith, History of mathematics, I, p.358).