Bidspirit auction | CAVALIERI (Fr. Bonaventura). CENTURIA di

CAVALIERI (Fr. Bonaventura). CENTURIA di Varii Problemi, per dimostrare l'uso, e la facilità de' Logaritmi nella Gnomonica, Astronomia, Geograffia, Altimetria, Pianimetria, Stereometria, & Aritmetica prattica [...]. In Bologna. 1639. - CAVALIERI (Fr. Bonaventura) CENTURIA di Varii Problemi, per dimostrare l'uso, e la facilità de' Logaritmi nella Gnomonica, Astronomia, Geograffia, Altimetria, Pianimetria, Stereometria, & Aritmetica prattica [...] . Toccandosi anco qualche cosa nella Meccanica, nell'Arte Militare, e nella Musica. In Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, e Carlo Zenero, 1639. A-Y¹²; 526, [2] pp.: il.; 145 mm. Fr. Bonaventura Cavalieri (Milan, c. 1598; Bologna, 1647), Jesuit and mathematician, was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna from 1629 until his death. A disciple of Galileo and correspondent of Mersenne, Torricelli, and Viviani, he is a central figure in 17th-century mathematics: his method of indivisibles, expounded in ”Geometria indivisibilibus” (1635), anticipated the integral calculus of Newton and Leibniz. He was one of the first to introduce logarithms in Italy and to demonstrate their practical utility in astronomy, geography, and trigonometry. ”Centuria di Varii Problemi” demonstrates the use of logarithms through one hundred problems applied to astronomy, geography, altimetry, planimetry, stereometry, and practical arithmetic, with forays into mechanics, military art, and music. It is in this work that Cavalieri enunciates, among other results, the general formula for the integral of a power—a result that Fermat and Roberval had obtained independently in 1636. Galileo expressly praised this work on logarithms. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate