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Archimedis opera. commentariis Eutocii Ascalonitae. Gr. Lat. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 12, as above.
ARCHIMEDES.
Αρχιμηδους Του Συρακουσιου, τα Μεχρι νυν σωζομενα, απαντα. Archimedis Syracvsani Philosophi ac Geometræ excellentissimi Opera, quæ quidem extant, omnia, multis iam seculis desiderata, atq[.] à quàm paucissimis hactenus uisa, nuncq[.] primùm & Græcè & Latinè in lucem edita. Quorum Catalogum uersa pagina reperies. Adiecta quoq[.] sunt Evtocii Ascalonitæ in eosdem Archimedis libros Commentaria, item Græcè & Latinè, nunquam antea excusa. Cum Cæs. Maiest. gratia & priuilegio ad quinquennium. Basileæ: Ioannes Heruagius excuidi fecit, An. mdxliiii . [1544.] [ punctuation in brackets marks abbreviations originally represented by modified “q”-- Ed.]
QA31 .A681
First Edition. Folio. 4 parts in 1, with separate signatures and pagination, separate title for the Commentaria of Eutocius, Greek and Latin text, woodcut initials and mathematical diagrams.
Brunet I, 143.
Entered in the undated manuscript catalogue with the price, 7.10.
Archimedes, c. 287-212 B.C., Greek mathematician and inventor.
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Archimedis Arenarius et dimensio Circuli. Gr. Lat. Wallisii. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 2, as above.
ARCHIMEDES.
Αρχιμηδους του Συρακουσιου ψαμμ(`ι)της, κα(`ι) κύκλου μέτρησις. Ευτοκιου Ασκαλωνιτου, ε(’ι)ς α(’υ)τ(`η)ν (‛υ)πομνημα. Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius, et Dimensio Circuli. Eutocii Ascalonitæ, in hanc Commentarius. Cum versione & notis Joh. Wallis, SS. Th. D. Geometriæ Professoris Saviliani. Oxonii: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1676.
QA31 .A7
Sm. 8vo. 108 leaves, Greek and Latin text on alternate leaves, 3 folded plates.
STC A3622.
Madan 3095.
Entered in the undated manuscript catalogue in the previous chapter, Arithmetic, with the price, 2/6.
Jefferson’s copy was bound for him by John March on April 26, 1806, cost 0.75.
John Wallis, 1616-1703, English mathematician and clergyman, was one of the founders of the Royal Society. Dr. Fell was the author of the Preface of this publication.
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Proclus’s Philosoph l. & Mathematical commentaries. 2. v. 4 to. London. 1792.
1815 Catalogue, page 111, no. 13, as above, reading Philosophical, Lond.
PROCLUS.
The Philosophical and Mathematical Commentaries of Proclus, on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. To which are added, a History of the Restoration of Platonic theology, by the latter Platonists: and a Translation from the Greek of Proclus’s Theological Elements. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [-II.] London:

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