Lot 254
Mathematics.- Peurbach (Georg von) Tractatus... super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis. Item compositio tabularum sinuum per Ioannem de Regiomonte, first edition, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1541.
Estimate: £1,000 - 1,500
Description
Mathematics.- Peurbach (Georg von) Tractatus... super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis. Item compositio tabularum sinuum per Ioannem de Regiomonte, first edition, woodcut diagrams and initials, tables, lacking final blank, odd faint spot, modern marbled wrappers, [Tomash & Williams P63; VD 16 P 2017], folio, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1541.
⁂ On calculating the values of sines and chords, according to Arabic astronomers and Ptolemy. The preface is by Nuremberg mathematician and astronomer Johannes Schöner and the trigonometric tables of Regiomontanus are published here for the first time.
Provenance: Erwin Tomash Library of Computing copy, sold Sotheby's, 18th & 19th September, 2018, lot 514.
Description
Mathematics.- Peurbach (Georg von) Tractatus... super propositiones Ptolemaei de sinubus & chordis. Item compositio tabularum sinuum per Ioannem de Regiomonte, first edition, woodcut diagrams and initials, tables, lacking final blank, odd faint spot, modern marbled wrappers, [Tomash & Williams P63; VD 16 P 2017], folio, Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1541.
⁂ On calculating the values of sines and chords, according to Arabic astronomers and Ptolemy. The preface is by Nuremberg mathematician and astronomer Johannes Schöner and the trigonometric tables of Regiomontanus are published here for the first time.
Provenance: Erwin Tomash Library of Computing copy, sold Sotheby's, 18th & 19th September, 2018, lot 514.
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