116895-01
Tiphys batavus, sive histiodromice, de navium cursibus, et re navali. 2 Teile in 1 Band.
Leiden, Elzevier, 1624. - (19 x 14 cm). (56) 109 S.; (2) 62 (1) S. Mit 2 Kupfertafeln, 1 ganzseitigen Textkupfer sowie einigen schematischen Textholzschnitten. Lederband der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe. - "One of the earliest mathematical treatises on Navigation... The introductory 30 leaves... deal with the ships of the ancients, illustrated with 2 engravings. The treatise on navigation follows, divided into forty-eight propositions, of which the fifteenth defines for the first time the 'loxodromic curve'; this is further elucidated, and its use in navigation explained in succeeding propositions. The last 62 pp. contain the 'Tabulae Canonicae Parallelorum' and the 'Canones Loxodromici'. At the end the poem 'De Magnete' by Claudianus Alexandrinus (IVth cent.). The full-page engraving illustrates certain points of Snellius' method, and shows the 32 points of the compass in Dutch" (Weil). - "In 1624 Snel published his lessons on navigation in 'Tiphys batavus' (Tiphys was the pilot of the Argo). The work is mainly a study and tabulation of Pedro Nunez' so-called rhumb lines (1537), which Snel named 'loxodromes.' His consideration of a small spherical triangle bounded by a loxodrome, a parallel, and a meridian circle as a plane right triangle foreshadows the differential triangle of Pascal and later mathematicians" (DSB). - Titel mit gelöschten Besitzvermerken von alter Hand. Ein Blatt mit kleinem Randausriss (ohne Textverlust). Das seitengroße Textkupfer, wie meist, knapp beschnitten, sonst wohlerhalten. - DSB 12, 499; Poggendorff II, 949; Norman 1964; Honeyman 2868; Willems 224; Weil, Kat. 27, Nr. 196
Tiphys batavus, sive histiodromice, de navium cursibus, et re navali. 2 Teile in 1 Band.
Leiden, Elzevier, 1624. - (19 x 14 cm). (56) 109 S.; (2) 62 (1) S. Mit 2 Kupfertafeln, 1 ganzseitigen Textkupfer sowie einigen schematischen Textholzschnitten. Lederband der Zeit.
Erste Ausgabe. - "One of the earliest mathematical treatises on Navigation... The introductory 30 leaves... deal with the ships of the ancients, illustrated with 2 engravings. The treatise on navigation follows, divided into forty-eight propositions, of which the fifteenth defines for the first time the 'loxodromic curve'; this is further elucidated, and its use in navigation explained in succeeding propositions. The last 62 pp. contain the 'Tabulae Canonicae Parallelorum' and the 'Canones Loxodromici'. At the end the poem 'De Magnete' by Claudianus Alexandrinus (IVth cent.). The full-page engraving illustrates certain points of Snellius' method, and shows the 32 points of the compass in Dutch" (Weil). - "In 1624 Snel published his lessons on navigation in 'Tiphys batavus' (Tiphys was the pilot of the Argo). The work is mainly a study and tabulation of Pedro Nunez' so-called rhumb lines (1537), which Snel named 'loxodromes.' His consideration of a small spherical triangle bounded by a loxodrome, a parallel, and a meridian circle as a plane right triangle foreshadows the differential triangle of Pascal and later mathematicians" (DSB). - Titel mit gelöschten Besitzvermerken von alter Hand. Ein Blatt mit kleinem Randausriss (ohne Textverlust). Das seitengroße Textkupfer, wie meist, knapp beschnitten, sonst wohlerhalten. - DSB 12, 499; Poggendorff II, 949; Norman 1964; Honeyman 2868; Willems 224; Weil, Kat. 27, Nr. 196
3.500 €