Elementale Geometricum, ex Euclidis Geometria...
Price: $15,000.00
Hard Cover. Paris: Apud Christianum Wechelum, 1534. Third Edition. Fine.
Illustrated with woodcut printer's device to title page and final page, and numerous woodcut diagrams throughout text. Presumed third edition (first published in 1528). Bound in full modern brown calf for Maclehose, with board margins double-ruled in blind, spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt and other edges stained green, and marbled endpapers. Fine, with some contemporary annotations to margins. Overall, an exceptionally well-preserved copy. Elementale Geometricum is a shortened version of Euclid's seminal 13-book treatise on geometry and mathematics, Elements. Voegelin's version played an important role in disseminating Euclid's principles of geometry to students in the 16th century. Johannes Voegelin (ca. 1500 - 1549) was a teacher of mathematics and astronomy who taught at St. Stephen's Public School in Vienna and the University of Vienna. In addition to Elementale Geometrium he published an annotated edition of Theodosius' Sphaerics (1529) and some works on astronomy. Euclid (ca. 300 BC) was a Greek mathematician whose greatest work was Elements. For the treatise, Euclid collected the findings of great mathematicians before him and brilliantly organized them into a cohesive system. In The Development of Mathematics (1940), Eric Temple Bell writes, "With the completion of Euclid's Elements... For the first time in history masses of isolated discoveries were unified and correlated by a single guided principle, that of rigid deduction from explicitly stated assumptions." Elements is one of the most influential books in human history, helping shape more than two decades of thought and progress. Item #JVO001
