With the rare second volume
DESCARTES, René, (1596-1650) Geometria... Anno 1637 Gallice edita; postea autem una cum notis Florimondi De Beaune... in Latina linguam versa, & commentariis illustrata, opera atque studio Francisci à Schooten... - Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1659-1661.
2 vols. Small 4to. Contemp. vellum, limp vol. I, stiff vol. II. With numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. (14), 520 pp.; (18), 420, (4) pp.; lacking half title (with portrait on verso) and some light foxing in vol.I; the rare vol II is fresh except for a small ink stain in lower outer corner of first two leaves.
«Second Latin edition of this celebrated work, originally published in French in the Discours de la Méthode, which contains the author’s invention of analytical geometry. It is specially valuable for the notes by De Beaune, which rendered the difficult original text easy of comprehension, and wherein the editor first points out that the properties of a curve can be deduced from those of its tangents (‘the inverse method of tangents’). (This edition) first contains the important "De Reductione Aequationum", and "De Maximis et Minimis", both by Johan Hudde, burgomaster of Amsterdam... the second is one of those classical contributions which preceded and led up to to the invention of the calculus... The second volume, which is especially rare and nearly always missing, includes... (four treatises by van Schooten, de Beaune, and de Witt)» (Sotheran, First Suppl., 1041 and 1042).
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