Oct 11, 2001 - Sale 1908

Sale 1908 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
(LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON.) Acta eruditorum anno MDCXCV publicata.<> 4 engraved plates. [2], 560, [52] pages. 4to, contemporary vellum, spine darkened, some discoloration on covers; contents browned and dampstained. Leipzig: Johannes Georg for Joh. Gross & Joh. Thom. Fritsch, 1695

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Pages 145-57 contain Leibnitz's Specimen dynamicum, pro admirandis naturae legibus circa corporum vires, "the clearest exposition of Leibni[t]z's dynamics" (DSB); pages 310-16 contain his Responsio ad nonnullas difficultates, a Dn. Bernardo Nieuwentijt circa methodum diferentialem seu infinitesimalem motas, a defense of Nieuwentijt's questioning of the admissibility and use of higher differentials in the calculus. DSB VIII, 151 and 164.<