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SCHOTHUSIUS, HULDERICUS [pseud. of IMMANUEL WEBER].
Rettung
des Calenderbutzers; das ist, Wolgegründete Widerlegung der grundlosen und
Lästerhafften Vindication, mit welcher M. Theodorus Majus, dem Mißbrauch
der Astrologiae gern beyspringen wil.
[44] leaves * TREW, ABDIAS.
Gründliche
Calender Kunst.
63 pages. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 154x91 mm, later marbled boards,
contents toned; and 4to, 203x164 mm, later marbled boards, contents browned.
(Erfurt: Johann Birckner), 1615; Lüneburg: heirs of Johann and
Heinrich Stern, 1666
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TARTAGLIA, NICCOLÒ.
Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse.
Large woodcut por-
trait of the author on title; 2 folding woodcut plates; woodcut text illustrations and
diagrams throughout. 284 [i. e., 286] pages. 4to, 203x145 mm, modern boards; marginal
soiling and dampstaining through most of volume, blank lower outer corner off N3.
[Venice, 1606]
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First part only of an edition of Tartaglia’s collected writings. Originally published in 1546,
Quesiti et Inventioni Diverse “dealt with algebraic and geometric material (including the solu-
tion of the cubic equation), and such varied subjects as the firing of artillery, cannonballs,
gunpowder, the disposition of infantry, topographical surveying, equilibrium in balances, and sta-
tics”—DSB XIII, 260. Riccardi II, 499.
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