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About this Item

Title

  • Geometria

Names

  • Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
  • Beaune, Florimond de, 1601-1652.
  • Schooten, Frans van, 1615-1660.

Created / Published

  • Lugduni Batavorum : Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649.

Headings

  • -  Geometry--Early works to 1800
  • -  Geometry, Analytic--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  First separate Latin ed.; first published in French in his Discours de la méthode, Leyde, 1637, cf. A. Cioranescu, 17. s., 23960-23962, and Tchemerzine IV, 305-306.
  • -  Both Tchemerzine and Cioranescu cite (by error?) as [18], 520 p.; BN 38:1211, no. 113 cites this ed. as 338 p.
  • -  Signatures: *⁴ **² A-Ttt⁴ Vu² (Vu2 blank).
  • -  Printer's device on t.p. Title vignette : Title in red and black.
  • -  LAC scc 2018-10-17 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [12], 336, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to).

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA33 .D43 1649

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 39010135

OCLC Number

  • 2962172

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Descartes, René, Florimond De Beaune, and Frans Van Schooten. Geometria. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/39010135/.

APA citation style:

Descartes, R., Beaune, F. D. & Schooten, F. V. (1649) Geometria. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/39010135/.

MLA citation style:

Descartes, René, Florimond De Beaune, and Frans Van Schooten. Geometria. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1649. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/39010135/>.