VERSÜCH EINER VERGLEICHÜNG DER VERHÄLTNISSE DAS DIAMETERS ZUR PERIPHERIE. [AN ATTEMPT TO COMPARE THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE DIAMETER TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE].
[University of Halle: ca. 1728].
Price: $7,000.00
About the item
Abundantly illustrated with watercolor drawings and tables. 1 vols. 4to. Disbound, remnants of contemporary reversed calf and marbled boards,losses to top edges.
Item #315966
Extensive German manuscript on geometry, with handsome period-colored illustrations. The first part discusses the relationship of the diameter to the circumference, with an introduction on Pi, comparing findings by Euclid, Archimedes and Ptolemy, as well as 16th- and 17th-century scholars like Augustin Hirschvogel, Albrecht Dürer, Nicolaus de Cusa, Ludolph van Ceulen, Kepler, Adam Kochansky, François Viète, Carlo Renaldini and Adriaan Metius. The second features problems, theorems and solutions to geometrical exercises on linear and proportional measures of inscribed and circumscribed polygons. A few pages contain occasional verse and notes on chemical preparations.
Johann Gottlieb Arndt was an engineer and taught mathematics at the University of Halle in 1728-32. He also published on physical, mathematical, and economic education.
