Omerique, Analysis geometrica, Cadiz, 1698, contemporary calf

OMERIQUE, ANTONIO HUGO DE

Analysis geometrica sive nova, et vera methodus resolvendi tam problemata geometrica, quam arithmeticas quaestiones. Pars prima de planis. Cadiz: Christophorus de Requena, 1698

4to (203 x 139mm.), engraved frontispiece, woodcut initials and diagrams, contemporary English speckled calf, frontispiece and errata leaf shaved at foredge, spine rubbed, joints cracked

FIRST EDITION, and the only work by the Spanish mathematician Omerique (1634-1705) to be published (the projected second part, on curved surfaces, was never published and the manuscript lost, along with other works on trigonometry and arithmetic). Newton read this work and discussed it at a meeting of the Royal Society in April 1699 (see also Wallis 4.4).

LITERATURE:

BL STC Spanish O26; not found in Palau

PROVENANCE:

J. Flamsteed (not the Astronomer Royal), contemporary inscription on title-page "ex dono [--] Gee[-]"; Lord Sandys, armorial bookplate