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Mathematical textbook with chapters on map making, fortification, building dykes

Name: Mathematical textbook with chapters on map making, fortification, building dykes
SKU: 202

Price

€ 475,00

Second and best edition of an influential mathematical textbook, edited and greatly expanded by Johann Hermann Knoop.

In no fewer than 740 pages the authors discuss a wide variety of mathematical topics, ranging from geometry, arithmetic and stereometry to surveying, map making, fortification, building dykes and ramparts, as well as wine gauging.

The first edition was published in 1703. For this second edition Knoop added many chapters, producing, in fact, a new work. Knoop was a prolific author, probably best remembered for his Pomologia. He had a keen interest in landscape architecture and designed several gardens for Stadholder Willem Carel Hendrik Friso, to whom this textbook is dedicated. However, Knoop's excessive drinking led to his dismissal in ca. 1749.

Title

Johannes Morgenster & Johann Hermann Knoop.

Werkdadige meetkonst, tonende klaar en beknopt, hoe dat al 't gene een ingenieur en landmeter te meten voorvallen kan, wiskonstig met en zonder hoekmeting, door de minste moeite gemeten word.

Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda, 1744.

Physical Description

8vo (ca. 20 x 12 cm). [26], 740, [2] pp. With 30 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. Flyleaf with a lovely calligraphed owner's entry: "P. Tazelaar. Ns Zoon / Geometricus / Colijnsplaat december 1871". Last blank with another 19th-century annotations (probably by the same). Vellum worn, corners damaged.