Paris. Jacques Gabay. 1996. Coll : Les Grands Classiques Gauthier-Villars. Réimpression de l'édition de 1922. In-8. Br. 382 p.TBE.
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P., Gauthier-Villars, 1922, un volume in 4, broché, couverture imprimée (défraîchie avec petit manque de papier à la partie supérieure du dos), 26pp., (1), 382pp., (1), 4 PLANCHES hors texte
---- .EDITION ORIGINALE -- VOLUME UNIQUE CONSACRE AUX SCIENCES EXACES AU MOYEN AGE PAR TANNERY ---- "An engineer and administrator by profession, TANNERY could devote only his leisure hours to scholarship. Despite this limitation, however, he accomplished a vast amount of penetrating and wide-ranging research and became one of the most influential figures in the rapidly developing study of the history of science at the beginning of the twentieth century". (DSB XIII pp. 251/256) ---- L'extraction des racines carrées d'après Nicolas CHOQUET - Les prétendues notations Pythagoriciennes sur l'origine de nos chiffres - Sur l'étymologie du mot chiffre - Un nouveau texte des Traités d'arpentage et de géométrie d'EPATHRODITUS et Vitruvius RUFUS - La géométrie au XIe siècle - Le Traité du Quadrant de Maître AGNELES - Une correspondance d'ECOLATRESE - Sur la division du temps au Moyen Âge - Les écrits mathématiques de BOECE au Moyen Âge - AGIMBOLD DE COLOGNE - etc**4942/K7
Toulouse, Paris,èduard Privat - Gauthier-Villars, 1912-29. 4to. Bound in 9 contemp. uniform hcalf. Spines gilt, titlelabels on spines with gilt lettering. A few scratches to spines. Portrait in Helogravure as frontispiece. Some plates and some textillustrations.Stamps to titlepages. A fine clean copy, printed on good paper.
The origibal printing of this classic work on the history of science. Tannery was an engineer and administrator by profession, and he could devote only his leisure hours to scholarship. Despite this limitation, however, he accomplished a vast amount of penetrating and wide-ranging research and became one of the most influential figures in the rapidly developing study of the history of science at the beginning of the twentieth century.