EULER, Leonhard. Methodus inveniendi Lineas Curvas Maximi Minimive proprietate gaudentes, sive Solutio Problematis Isoperimetrici latissimo sensu accepti.Lausanne et Génève, Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1744.
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4to, mm. 260x210; Contemporary sewing cardboard binding; pp. [4], 322, [2]; Copper Vignette on Title-page, 5 copper plates folded out text. Stamp of extinct library on Title page.
FIRST AND RARE EDITION of this great work of Euler. Cajori: "[This work] displaying an amount of mathematical genius seldom rivalled, contained his researches on the calculus of variations [a subject afterwards improved by Lagrange], to the invention of which Euler was led by the study of isoperimetrical curves, the brachiostrochone in a resisting medium, and the theory of geodesics"
Honeyman, n. 1060; Dibner, Heralds, n. 111; Horblit Library, n. 350; Zeitlinger, n. 1256; Cajori p. 249; Norman 731.
Nice and fresh specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
FIRST AND RARE EDITION of this great work of Euler. Cajori: "[This work] displaying an amount of mathematical genius seldom rivalled, contained his researches on the calculus of variations [a subject afterwards improved by Lagrange], to the invention of which Euler was led by the study of isoperimetrical curves, the brachiostrochone in a resisting medium, and the theory of geodesics"
Honeyman, n. 1060; Dibner, Heralds, n. 111; Horblit Library, n. 350; Zeitlinger, n. 1256; Cajori p. 249; Norman 731.
Nice and fresh specimen. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
