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4to, pp. [xx], 401, [2] emendata, [1] blank; with additional engraved title-page and 12 folding leaves at end, containing 160 diagrams; title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette; repaired tear to final folding leaf, just touching one diagram, tear to head of third folding leaf, again just touching one diagram, and repaired tear to Aaa3, with text legible; otherwise, aside from occasional spotting and marginal browning, clean and fresh; in contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original panels, gilt in compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering-piece; some wear to extremities.First edition of the Swiss mathematician Jakob Hermann's best known work.
Hermann (1678-1733) was a native of Basel, and studied at the city's university under Bernoulli, through whom he got to know Leibniz, to whom the present work is dedicated; much of his early work was devoted to a defence of Leibnizian calculus. This led to a deeper interest in mechanics, a subject to which his greatest contribution… Read More
