The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing - L18409

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The Erwin Tomash Library On The History Of Computing

18 September 2018 • London

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Sale Number: L18409

147. Λεξικον seu Dictionarium mathematicum, in quo definitiones, & divisiones continentur scientiarum mathematicarum. Arithmeticae, geometriae, astronomicae, logisticae, geodesiae, harmonicae. Strassburg: Nikolaus Wyriot, 1573

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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148. L’art de naviger demontré par principes, & confirmé par plusieurs observations tirées de l'experience. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1677

Estimate: 1,800 – 2,400 GBP

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149. Tweede deel van de nieuwe tel-konst ofte wonderliicke konstighe tafel, inhoudende de logarithmi, voor de getallen van 1 af tot 100000 toe [etc.]. Gouda: Pieter Rammazeyn, 1627, [4], 36pp., without tables (see footnote), occasional cropping

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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150. The making, description, and use of a small portable instrument for ye pocket (or according to any magnitude) in forme of a mixt trapezia thus called a horizontall quadrant. Composed and prodused soly for the benefit and use of such which are studious of mathematicall practice. London: Richard Hawkins, 1632

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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151. Sefer ma'yan gannim... 1. Sod ha-yesod [on astronomical metaphors]; 2. Hukkot shamayim [explanations of books 1-2 of Ptolemy's Almagest]; 3. Gevurot ha-shem [explanations of the rest of the Almagest, Copernicus' On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, etc.]; 4. Ma'yan hatum [resolutions to the 70 doubts and paradoxes posed by Zerah ben Nathan]; Sefer elim [12 scientific questions and 70 doubts posed by Zerah ben Nathan of Troki the Karaite to Delmedigo, together with answers to some of them written by Delgmedigo's student Moses ben Meir of Metz]. Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel, August 1629

Estimate: 1,000 – 1,500 GBP

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152. Nouveau traités de trigonometrie rectiligne et spherique... avec un traité de gnomonique. Paris: Hippolyte-Louis and Jacques Guerin, 1741

Estimate: 800 – 1,200 GBP

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153. Essai sur les probabilités de la durée de la vie humaine. Paris: frères Guerin, 1746

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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154. La declaration et usage de l'instrument nommé canomettre. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1570

Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 GBP

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155. Lettre sur les aveugles, a l’usage de ceux qui voyent. London [i.e. Paris], 1749

Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP

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156. A geometrical practise, named Pantometria, divide into three books, Longimetria, Planimetria and Stereometria... framed by Leonard Digges Gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. London: Henry Bynneman, 1571

Estimate: 8,000 – 12,000 GBP

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157. A geometrical practical treatize named Pantometria, divided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundrie strange conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by glasses to set forth the true description or exact platte of an whole region. First published by Thomas Digges... lately reviewed by the author himselfe, and augmented with sundrie additions, diffinitions, problemes and rare theoremes. London: Abell Jeffes, 1591

Estimate: 9,000 – 12,000 GBP

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158. Tectonicon: briefly shewing the exact measuring, and speedy reckoning all manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. Cambridge: Richard Hodgkinsonne, 1656, black letter and roman types, title within ruled border and with woodcut vignette, woodcut diagrams, 2 folding tables, cropped throughout with loss

Estimate: 1,200 – 1,800 GBP

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