Lot 275
Mathematics.- Wallis (John) Arithmetica Infinitorum, first edition, Oxford, Leon. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1656.
Hammer Price: £6,500
Description
Mathematics.- Wallis (John) Arithmetica Infinitorum, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams, occasional foxing, slight staining to title, a few ink annotations and crossings out, later morocco-backed marbled boards, slightly rubbed, 4to, Oxford, Leon. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1656.
⁂ This is a separtately paginated part of Wallis' Operum Mathematicorum (6 parts in 2 vol.) and is according to Stedall "his masterpiece...a profound influence on the course of seventeenth-century English mathematics. The book contains the result for which Wallis is now best remembered, his infinite fraction for 4/pi"
Description
Mathematics.- Wallis (John) Arithmetica Infinitorum, first edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut diagrams, occasional foxing, slight staining to title, a few ink annotations and crossings out, later morocco-backed marbled boards, slightly rubbed, 4to, Oxford, Leon. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1656.
⁂ This is a separtately paginated part of Wallis' Operum Mathematicorum (6 parts in 2 vol.) and is according to Stedall "his masterpiece...a profound influence on the course of seventeenth-century English mathematics. The book contains the result for which Wallis is now best remembered, his infinite fraction for 4/pi"
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