Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
PATRIZI, FRANCESCO. Della Nuova Geometria. [8], 227, [1] pages; lacks the errata leaf. 4to, 210x146 mm, old vellum boards with spine title in ink; minor soiling and stains on title, restoration in blank upper outer corner of title and next leaf, owner's notes on rear pastedown, contents otherwise clean. Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini, 1587

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first edition. "Patrizi's importance in the history of science rests primarily on his high original views concerning the nature of space . . . seen in his Della nuova geometria . . . In it Patrizi attempted to found a system of geometry in which space was a fundamental, undefined concept that entered into the basic definitions (point, line, angle) of the system"--DSB X, 416. Riccardi I, 253.