Many references
in this part of the database benefit from the scholarship and imagery
within David Eugene Smith's RARA ARITHMETICA, Ginn, Boston
and London, 1908; based on examples of rare works on mathematics in the
Library of George Arthur Plimpton.
VISUAL CODES
AND THE ABACUS
ALGEBRA...
LOGARITHMS
Thomas Hariot, Artis Analyticae Praxis, Barker and Haered
London 1631 Published posthumously by the author's patron the Duke of
Northumberland who, like many others, believed that Heriot (usually associated
with his History of the colonisation of Virginia was the inventor of algebra
and not Vieta.
John Napier,
Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Hart Edinburgh 1614
CALCULATING
HANDS
Multiplication
tables from the 1488 edition of Boethius' ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOTHIUS
published in Augsberg. "The work was the standard in the Church Schools
throughout the Middle Ages." Smith/Plimpton.
The mathematician Adam Riese was a pioneer in replacing counter computation
with figure reckoning. His book Rechnung , was published in Leipzig in
1538. Two adjacent pages are here stacked vertically for convenience.
from
the Abate requeno, Parma, 1797, the left hand indicates
any number up to ninety but only the right hand can signal beyond.
Title Page to Thomas and Leonard Digges' Stratioticos
, London, 1579 (military considerations).
VARIANTS
ON THE PAGE
Multiplication tables from the 1488 edition of Boethius' ANICIUS
MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS published in Augsberg. "The work
was the standard in the Church Schools throughout the Middle Ages."
Smith/Plimpton.
an illustrated page from Euclides, Mathematicarum Disciplinarium
Janitors... published in Venice by Jo.Tacuinus in 1545. The original
page is 11" x 8"
an illustrated page from Luca Paciuolo, De Borgo San Sepolcro,
Summa de Arithemtica geometria... , published in Toscolano in
1523.
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