Zierowski, Compendium matheseos, manuscript on paper, 1651, contemporary calf
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200 - 300 GBP
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ZIEROWSKI. Compendium Matheseos, traditum operae et laborae Adm. Rel. Patris Joannis Bruns. Soc. Jesu., Pultoviae (i.e., Púchov, Slovakia) ...Scriptum verò per me Joannem Zierowski Physices ac eiusdem scientia auditorem, manuscript on paper, 1651
Mathematical Compendium written by the academic Johannes Zierowski in Púchov (Slovakia) in 1651. The work covers numerous aspects of the study of mathematics and geometry, including adjacent subjects like astronomy. In doing so, Zierowski's work was part of the wake of new developments in mathematics, among them the mathematical interpretation of nature and analytical geometry which arose in seventeenth-century Europe. The work contains numerous intriguing fold-out-pages, mathematical tables and graphs, astronomical figures, and helpful overviews which supply the reader with useful insights of Arabic, Greek, Roman, Hebrew, as well as Chaldaic numbers.
4to (194 x 159 mm), manuscript on paper, including hundreds of geometric diagrams and solutions to problems, a section on the design of fortification walls with illustrations (including folding diagram of a star fort), sundials, astronomical diagrams, and a map of Poland and Lithuania. (One leaf loose and frayed at outer margin, some spotting and browning.)
binding: Seventeenth-century calf (203 x 167 mm), tooled in blind, 2 concentric frames of floriate rolls, in central panel, floral cornerpieces, central lozenge tool with floral pattern in negative and marguerite in centre, surrounded by elongated bud and leaves tool, spine with 3 bands, compartments undecorated, plain edges. (2 small wormholes to spine, extremities slightly rubbed.)
acquisition: Purchased in 1968 in Hungary.
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