Euclidis Elementorum Lib by Clavius Christopher (1 results)

Condition: Good. 2 volumes, octavo (171×119mm). I: [8] leaves, 918 pages, [1] leaf. II: 959, [97] pages. Engraved title-pages, numerous woodcut diagrams and geometrical figures throughout the text; text within ruled border. Contemporary limp vellum binding with title lettered in manuscript on spine. Some browning and foxing, faint dampstaining on few leaves in second volume; spine slightly rubbed at extremities. A very good copy overall. Provenance: Spirito Nicolis de Robilant (1724?1801; manuscript ex-libris); erased manuscript note on title of first volume.The second and expanded edition of Clavius's commentary on Euclid. Christopher Clavius (1537?1612), a German Jesuit and professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano, was among the leading mathematicians and astronomers of his time. His study and original commentary on the work of Euclid, first printed in 1574, was one of the most influential achievements of Renaissance mathematics, with numerous reprints in the following decades. Backer-Sommervogel II 1213; EDIT16 CNCE 18364. Book.