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by Galileo Galilei
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- Title Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare
- Author Galileo Galilei
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- Publisher Octavo
- Date October 2004
- ISBN 9781891788970
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Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare (Italian Edition) Galilei, Galileo
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Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare (Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass; facsimile of 1606 edition on CD-ROM)
by Galilei, Galileo (English translation by Stillman Drake; introduction by Filippo Camerota)
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Padua (Oakland: Octavo), 1606; 2004. 1st edition. Other Binding. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG (as new, except for abrasion to back cover label). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on CD-ROM disc; this is not a printed book) of the first edition of this exceptionally rare (fewer than 10 copies known) early work by Galileo Galilei, from a copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress. Galileo's "geometrical and military compass" (or sector) was a mathematical device -- a sort of calculating ruler based on the principle of proportional magnitudes -- that brought speed and accuracy to computations about armaments and their trajectories. Its employment, however, extended well beyond the battlefield. It was widely used for rapid and complex calculations of proportion, volume, and square or cube roots, well before the advent of logarithmic tables -- and eventually the slide-rule and computer. Galileo's little book, privately printed in an edition…
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