Euclid, (323-283 B.C.)

Sei Elementi di Geometrica. With additional theorems and propositions relating to astronomy, optics, mechanics, etc. Illustrated with numerous pen-drawn figures and diagrams. The date is found on fol. 90v, and the work seems to have been written by an anonymous follower of the theories of Galileo.

1748

1 volume 100 ff. folio. 28 x 191/2 cm. Original boards. Some leaves seem to be wanting between fol. 93 and fol. 97. A foliation has been added.

Purchased 1929.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Galletti Collection.