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Isaac Barrow Euclidis Elementorum 1659 2nd Ed. Euclidis Data Diagrams No Reserve
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Euclid’s Elements From Isaac Newton’s Teacher, His First Complete Treatment of Euclid
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1659 Enlarged Second Edition of

Euclidis ElementorumOr the Elements of Euclid
Compiled byIsaac BarrowFamed English Mathematician and Teacher of Isaac Newton
Printed In London By R. Daniel For William Nealand
Complete in All Respects Adorned with Numerous In-Text Illustration and Diagrams to Instruct the Reader, With Euclidis Data issued with Elementorum for the First time by Barrow
In Very Good Condition Having been Rebacked, but Retaining its Blind-Ruled Calf Boards, with Clean and Well Margined Leaves.

 

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“Euclidis Elementorum Libri xv. breviter demonstrati, / Opera Is. Barrow, Canatbrigiensis Coll. Trin. Soc. / … / Londini, Excudebat R. Daniel, Impensis Guil. Nealand Bibliopolae Cantabrig. C|Ɔ |ƆC LIX [1659]” 

The Volume is in Very Good Condition it is has been expertly rebacked, retaining the contemporary blind ruled calf boards, with the newer spine divided into six blind tooled compartments by five raised bands, with a red morocco letter-piece in the second compartment from the top. Externally there is some light scuffing on the boards, with the newer spine holding quite well. Internally the leaves are generally clean and well margined, with some light foxing primarily confined to the preliminaries, a tear in the margin of the first leaf of the epistle dedicatory, with some occasional light marginal stains otherwise. Please Take The Time Necessary To Review The Photographs On Our Website In Order To Gain The Fullest Possible Understanding Of The Content And Condition Of This Volume.

The Volume is Complete in All Respects with numerous in-text diagrams and illustrations and separate title page for Euclidis Data succincte demonstrata. The volume is paginated as follows: [xvi], 399, [1]. The volume measures about 15 cm. by 9.5 cm. by 5.5 cm. Each leaf measures about 145 mm. by 85 mm.

Provenance: Bookplate of Denis Gibbs on the front paste-down

Of Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. Isaac Newton was a student of Barrow\'s, and Newton went on to develop calculus in a modern form. The lunar crater Barrow is named after him.

 

His earliest work was a complete edition of the Elements of Euclid, which he issued in Latin in 1655, and in English in 1660; in 1657 he published an edition of the Data. This second edition of Euclid includes the Data section, and as such constitutes his first full treatment of Euclid. His lectures, delivered in 1664, 1665, and 1666, were published in 1683 under the title Lectiones Mathematicae; these are mostly on the metaphysical basis for mathematical truths. His lectures for 1667 were published in the same year, and suggest the analysis by which Archimedes was led to his chief results. In 1669 he issued his Lectiones Opticae et Geometricae. It is said in the preface that Newton revised and corrected these lectures, adding matter of his own, but it seems probable from Newton\'s remarks in the fluxional controversy that the additions were confined to the parts which dealt with optics. This, which is his most important work in mathematics, was republished with a few minor alterations in 1674. In 1675 he published an edition with numerous comments of the first four books of the On Conic Sections of Apollonius of Perga, and of the extant works of Archimedes and Theodosius of Bithynia.

 

In the optical lectures many problems connected with the reflection and refraction of light are treated with ingenuity. The geometrical focus of a point seen by reflection or refraction is defined; and it is explained that the image of an object is the locus of the geometrical foci of every point on it. Barrow also worked out a few of the easier properties of thin lenses, and considerably simplified the Cartesian explanation of the rainbow.

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