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Condizione: molto buono. 3 opere in 1 volume in-4. Legatura coeva in pergamena floscia (tracce d'uso, cuffia superiore con piccole mancanze). Comprende: I) "Nova Scientia", ff. (4), 32, al titolo raffigurazione allegorica delle discipline scientifiche (matematica, astronomia, geometria.) e ritratto dell'a. insieme ai grandi studiosi del passato (Euclide, Aristoltele, Platone). II) "Quesiti", ff. 128, al titolo ritratto dell'a., in fine; Venetia, Nic. De Bescarini, 1554. III) "Regola generale", ff. (32), 1 tav. ripieg. f.t., al titolo raff. di un vascello, in fine impresa dell'editore e colophon: Vinegia, Curio Traiano de' Navò, 1562. Tutte le tre opere, che frequentemente si trovano rilegate insieme, presentano numerose xilografie n.t. La "Nova Scientia" apparve per la prima volta nel 1537 ed è considerata opera fondamentale sulla teoria del moto dei proiettili elaborata tramite la geometria. Quarta edizione, prima 1554, dei "Quesiti" in cui Tartaglia teorizza la formula per la risoluzione delle equazioni cubiche di terzo grado, problema che per lungo tempo aveva fermato il passo ai progressi dell'analisi matematica. L'opera, divisa in 9 libri nei quali si continuano le ricerche cominciate nella "Nuova Scientia", tratta anche di dinamica e balistica (libri I e II), fortificazioni, militaria, ( libri III-VI) con particolare riferimento alla fortificazione di Torino, statica (libri VII e VIII). Terza edizione, prima 1551, della "Regola" con numerose xilografie, alcune a piena pagina, raffiguranti navi recuperate; in cui si tratta del recupero di navi affondate, proprietà dei corpi, loro peso specifico, galleggiamento. Ottimo esemplare. I) Riccardi,II, col .496, 1.6. Printing and the Mind of Man 66: «Tartaglia's The New Science stands at the threshold of a new age in the history of mechanics.»; Dibner, Heralds of Science 102; Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, pp. 151-158. Riccardi p. 496: «Prima edizione assai rara.». Enc. Ital, vol. XXXIII, p. 286. II) Adams T 184; Cockle 660; Norman 2054-55. Riccardi I, 499, 4.4. III) Riccardi, I, 2.504; Adams T-187; Cockle, 660. Book.

SECOND EDITION 1554, imprint from colophon, Italian text, small 4to, approximately 220 x 150 mm, 8½ x 6 inches, large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, 40 woodcut illustrations in the text plus an additional strip of paper bearing a repeat illustration pasted to fore-edge of leaf S3r as in all copies of the 1554 edition, numerous diagrams, 11 historiated initials, leaves: [4], 5-128 leaves, numbered on rectos only, making a total of 254 pages, signature H is duplicated i.e. pages 29-32, collated and guaranteed complete, bound in modern half leather over patterned paper boards, 3 raised bands, blind rules and gilt title to spine, new endpapers. Pale stain to margins throughout up to leaf 104, then slightly heavier stains with tide lines to leaf 125 which just touch the text, all still legible, also a smaller darker brown stain in the upper margins sometimes affecting text but with no loss of legibility, 1 small inkspot to text with loss of 3 letters, small brown spot to pasted-on illustration, tiny hole in 2 margins. Binding tight and firm. A good copy with staining to margins at rear. First published in 1546 the second edition was the first to contain the addendum to Book VI, which is an early important treatise on fortification. Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557), born in Brescia, was an Italian mathematician who originated the science of ballistics which he first treated in his earlier work Nova Scientia. The first two books in the Quesiti consist of dialogues on this subject, the first with the cannon founder Alberghetto di Alberghetti, the third book is on gunpowder, the fourth on military formations in battle, the fifth on the geometer's compass is a dialogue with his friend Richard Wentworth, Henry VIII's envoy in Venice (the entire book is dedicated to Henry VIII of England), the sixth, as noted, on fortifications, the seventh and eighth are on mechanics and the final ninth book is on problems in arithmetic and ends with the famous correspondence with Cardan on their rival claims to have been the first to solve cubic equations. See: The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine by Diana H. Hook & Jeremy M. Norman, Volume 2, page 749, No. 2054 & 2055; Cockle, Bibliography of Military Books up to 1642, No.660; Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed in Europe 1501-1600, Volume II, No. T184; Fabrizio Govi, I Classici Che Hanno Fatto L'Italia, page 82, No. 85; Spaulding & Karpinski, Early Books in the University of Michigan Libraries, page 3, No.15. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to, ff.132, [2, contents], without folding plate as usual; large woodcut portrait of Tartaglia to title-page with the motto 'Le inventioni sono difficili ma lo aggiungervi è facile', woodcut historiated initials, over 60 woodcut in-text diagrams and illustrations; very light marginal dampstaining to first and last leaves, occasional slight foxing, small closed marginal paperflaw to title-page neatly repaired verso, a single marginal annotation on f.124 excised, but a very good copy; recased in old vellum, rebacked; small chip at foot of spine; contemporary annotations in Italian in light brown ink to c.44pp. with small marginal drawings including a cannon and a book, errata corrected in manuscript.First edition, annotated throughout by a contemporary reader, of Tartaglia's highly influential work on ballistics and algebra, containing his polemical rule for solving cubic equations. Brescian mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia (or Tartalea, 1499/1500 1557) taught mathematics at Verona in 1521 and in Venice in 1534, publishing the first Italian translations of Euclid and Archimedes and originating the science of ballistics in his 1537 Nova scientia. Divided into nine books, the present work is dedicated to Henry VIII, whose interest in the study of warfare had been indicated to Tartaglia by Richard Wentworth, the king's envoy in Venice. Wentworth is one of the many interlocutors in Tartaglia's 171 quesiti, dialogues in which the author discusses the merits of cannonballs made from lead, iron, and stone, saltpetre and the creation of gunpowder, methods of fortification, arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. 'The most important mathematical subject with which Tartaglia's name is linked is the solution of third-degree equations. The rule for solving them had been obtained by Scipione Ferro in the first or second decade of the sixteenth century but was not published at the time. It was rediscovered by Tartaglia in 1535, on the occasion of a mathematical contest with Antonio Maria Fiore On 25 March 1539, Tartaglia told Girolamo Cardano about it at the latter's house in Milan. Although Cardano had persistently requested the rule and swore not to divulge it, he included it in his Ars magna (1545)' (DSB). Tartaglia retaliated by publishing their correspondence within his quesiti, including Cardano's solemn vows not to publish on cubic equations until Tartaglia did. Our copy, containing the often-lacking table of contents, has been annotated in a single hand: this early reader takes particular interest in the manufacture of explosives and fortification, numbering the steps for making gunpowder and noting the names of key ingredients. Most copiously annotated, however, is the ninth and final book, in which the annotator, inter alia, visualises and checks Tartaglia's equations through diagrams and calculations and provides an alternative method to the author's 'ingenioso modo' of finding the side lengths of a scalene triangle. BM STC Italian, p.658; Adams T183; Cockle, Foreign 660; Marini, pp.11 12; Norman II 2054; Riccardi II I:11; Wellcome I 6225. See DSB XIII, pp.258 262. Language: Italian.

Second edition (first published in 1546). Small 4to. [4], 5-128 leaves [numbered recto only]. Large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, 40 woodcut illustrations in the text, numerous diagrams, historiated initials, additional strip of paper bearing a repeat illustration pasted to fore-edge of leaf S3r as in all copies of this edition. Text in Italian. Cockle 660 included in the artillery section). BM/STC Italian, p. 658. Norman sale 202 (for the first edition): "Presents Tartaglia's own research on third-degree equations, his most important mathematical accomplishment." Some light foxing, but a very good copy. Later calf-backed patterned boards (edges sprinkled red). (#3791). Tartaglia (1499-1557) was an Italian mathematician who pioneered work on ballistics, the subject of the first two books of this work; the third concerns gunpowder, the fourth military formations, and the fifth on the geometer's compass. The sixth book includes an addendum concerning fortification that first appears in this edition, the seventh and eighth deal with mechanics, and the ninth concerns problems in arithmetic.

In 4°; senza legatura, tagli spruzzati; cc. 5-94 [i.e. 96]; errori di numerazione delle pagine, ripetute le carte 67-68; mancano, come nella maggior parte delle copie di questa edizione, le prime 4 carte (segnatura A) comprensive del frontespizio; capilettera e numerose illustrazioni xilografiche n.t., testo in corsivo. Alcune lievi fioriture marginali, una lievissima traccia di gora al margine superiore delle ultime carte in esemplare, nel complesso, più che discreto.

First edition. A MAJOR CATALYST FOR THE RESEARCHES OF GALILEO. First edition of Tartaglia's Quesiti, second edition of the other two works. The Quesiti continues the discussion of ballistics in Tartaglia's Nova scientia (first published in 1537), pointing out for the first time that the trajectory of a projectile is curved throughout (in the Nova Scientia he argued that the path of a projectile consisted of rectilinear parts at the beginning and end of the trajectory, with a curved part between). The Quesiti is also famous for containing Tartaglia's solution of cubic equations, which until a few years earlier had been considered impossible; he had kept it secret since discovering it in 1535 (Cardano had published Tartaglia's solution in his Artis magnae (1545), without his permission.) Tartaglia (1499-1557) "reshaped the character of military discourse by identifying a 'new science' of artillery and casting it as a mathematical discipline. As a mathematician he was first directed to military questions in 1531 or 1532 in Verona when he was consulted on the maximum range of cannon Few European mathematicians of the 16th century had been as directly affected by war as Niccolò Tartaglia. In 1512, when still a boy, he received a facial wound during the sack of Brescia by the French. Left with a speech defect he adopted the nickname of Tartaglia ('stammerer') to replace his original surname Fontana. If Tartaglia's very identity was marked by war, he in turn reshaped the character of military discourse by identifying a 'new science' of artillery and casting it as a mathematical discipline A measure of Tartaglia's importance for the study of artillery is that [his] account was still being paraphrased and parroted into the later 17th century" (Bennett & Johnston). "Tartaglia proved both mathematically and experimentally that the trajectory of a missile fired from a cannon was a curved line throughout, thus contradicting the 'impetus' theory derived from Aristotle's Physics, which stated that a projectile's trajectory was described by two straight lines united by a curved line (Tartaglia was the first Renaissance scientist to point out serious flaws in the Physics). Tartaglia demonstrated that from the beginning of its flight, a projectile was affected by gravity, which, along with wind resistance, caused its forward velocity to lessen while increasing the speed of its fall. Tartaglia also observed a relationship between the speed of projection and the speed of fall: the greater the initial speed, the less the gravitational influence. Through experimentation, he determined that the maximum cannon range, at any given initial speed, was obtained with a firing elevation of forty-five degrees" (Norman 2053). The work by Biringuccio (1480-1539) is the second edition of the first book entirely dedicated to metallurgy. It "was written for the practicing metallurgist, foundryman, dyer, type-founder, glass-maker, and maker of gunpowder, fireworks and chemicals used in warfare" (Dibner, on the first edition, 1540). Provenance: Benedetto Sertori, doctor; Giovanni Battista da Filicaia, a citizen of Florence, early inscriptions on title-page; Thomas Francis Fremantle, armorial bookplate. Second edition of Tartaglia's first work, Nova scientia, the foundation of the new sciences and a major catalyst for the researches of Galileo. "The New Sciences stands at the threshold of a new age in the history of mechanics" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Tartaglia investigated problems of ballistics, fortification, surveying and engineering and sought to apply mathematical analysis to physical problems, free from the conceptual constraints of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism. "Tartaglia proved both mathematically and experimentally that the trajectory of a missile fired from a cannon was a curved line throughout, thus contradicting the 'impetus' theory derived from Aristotle's Physics, which stated that a projectile's trajectory was described by two straight lines united by a curved line (Tartaglia was the first Renaissance scientist to point out serious flaws in the Physics). Tartaglia demonstrated that from the beginning of its flight, a projectile was affected by gravity, which, along with wind resistance, caused its forward velocity to lessen while increasing the speed of its fall. Tartaglia also observed a relationship between the speed of projection and the speed of fall: the greater the initial speed, the less the gravitational influence. Through experimentation, he determined that the maximum cannon range, at any given initial speed, was obtained with a firing elevation of forty-five degrees" (Norman Catalogue 2053). "The latter result was obtained through an erroneous argument, but the proposition is correct (in a vacuum) and might well be called 'Tartaglia's theorem'" (DSB). Dibner describes the allegory of the frontispiece as follows: "Euclid greets the students at the outer gate of the circle in which Tartaglia is surrounded by Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy, Astrology, etc. the mathematical disciplines. A fired cannon and a mortar show the trajectories defined by Tartaglia. In the farther circle sits Philosophy. Beneath the scroll in Plato's hand, reading 'None not expert in Geometry may enter here', Aristotle moves forward to welcome the students." II. First edition of the Quesiti, in which Tartaglia continued his discussion of ballistics begun in Nova scientia. "Dedicated to Henry VIII, this work contains nine books of questions posed to Tartaglia by various people, and demonstrates his skill in non-mathematical areas: solving problems in the firing of artillery; topographical surveying; equilibrium in balances and statics; a new method for raising sunken ships; etc. In the course of the discussions, some fundamental issues in the theory of motion and of statics are raised, which are elaborated upon in the eighth book Among its other important points are the anticipation of the principle of inertia in boo.

vellum. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. FIRST EDITION OF TARTAGLIA'S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO MATHEMATICS, INCLUDING HIS RULE FOR SOLVING CUBIC EQUATIONS. "The 'mathematical practitioners' of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem to be acquiring an important role in histories which deal with the origins of the Scientific Revolution. Those who are fascinated by questions of origins in the history of science and technology find themselves driven more and more to investigate the sudden appearance, as it still seems, of this relatively large and active group. Among the first generation of these practitioners, few made a greater mark than Niccoló Tartaglia, whose works were translated into all the major European tongues, and whose influence in applied mathematics continued perceptibly for more than a century" (A.G. Keller, "Mathematics at Work: Niccoló Tartaglia, Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse"). Tartaglia's Quesiti, includes, without exaggeration, what can be considered the first real advance in algebra since antiquity. It "contains his most important mathematical accomplishment: the independent discovery of the rule for solving third-degree (cubic) equations, a rule first formulated but left unpublished by Sciopione de Ferro in the first or second decade of the sixteenth century. Tartaglia re-solved the problem in 1535 but kept the details a secret for many years, using his knowledge to gain advantage in the frequent public disputations held between scholars in his era. He finally revealed the rule to Girolamo Cardano in 1539 after Cardano swore to keep it secret, but six years later Cardano broke his promise by publishing the rule in his Ars magna . Tartaglia was incensed at Cardano's breach of promise and abused him roundly in Book IX of the Quesiti, in which he also published his own version of his researches into third-degree equations" (Norman). "Dedicated to Henry VIII, this work contains nine books of questions posed to Tartaglia by various people, and demonstrates his skill in non-mathematical areas: solving problems in the firing of artillery; topographical surveying; equilibrium in balances and statics; a new method for raising sunken ships; etc. In the course of the discussions, some fundamental issues in the theory of motion and of statics are raised, which are elaborated upon in the eighth book . Among its other important points are the anticipation of the principle of inertia in book three, the observations on the use of compasses in book five, and the solution of cubic equations in book nine" (Roberts and Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica). Note: This copy does not have the legendarily rare instrument plate only known in a handful of copies, but does have the often-lacking two-leaf table of contents. Venice: Venturino Ruffinelli, 1546. Small quarto (153x214mm), modern limp vellum in antique style, manuscript title on spine. With woodcut portrait and woodcut illustrations in text. Repaired closed tear to upper margin of last four leaves. Occasional light foxing (generally to margins); overall text very clean. A HANDSOME WIDE-MARGINED COPY OF A RARE AND IMPORTANT EARLY MATHEMATICAL TEXT.

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