MANUSCRIT. - [MATHEMATICS]. GIORDANO (Vitale).... - Lot 186 - Giquello

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MANUSCRIT. - [MATHEMATICS]. GIORDANO (Vitale).... - Lot 186 - Giquello
MANUSCRIT. - [MATHEMATICS]. GIORDANO (Vitale). Studio di matematica. Con la direttione del Signr Vitale Giordano. [Rome], 1675. Manuscript of 418, 528 and 490 pages, 3 volumes in-folio, brown maroquined basane, decorated with golden casters and fleurons in the genre à la Du Seuil, back decorated, slices speckled with red (Italian binding of the time). Imposing mathematics course transcribed by a student of Vitale Giordano (1633-1711), an Italian mathematician who served the Popes and Queen Christine of Sweden. Nothing predestined Vitale Giordano for the study of mathematics. Wanted by the courts for suffocating one of his brothers-in-law, it is said (Michaud), he left Italy in a hurry and enlisted in the troops that Innocent X raised to fight the Turks. After having distinguished himself in several battles, he returned to Rome where he was admitted to the guard of Castel Sant'Angelo: it was at this time that he began to study mathematics, especially Viète and Euclid, and made extraordinary progress in this field. He was appointed mathematician to Queen Christine of Sweden, Pope Clement X called him to the Château Saint-Ange as an engineer, Louis XIV asked him to teach at the Academy founded in Rome in 1666, and in 1685 he was given the chair of mathematics at the Collège de la Sapience. The manuscript, quickly transcribed by a man named Giacomo Spinola, forms a complete mathematics course in three large volumes of nearly 1500 pages, decorated with numerous technical figures in the text: arithmetic, algebra, geometry, gnomonics, trigonometry, military engineering, etc. Moistening in volumes I and II, multi-leaf worm galleries (especially volume I). Binding restorations.
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