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MILITARY MATHEMATICS. TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. La nova scientia. Venice Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550. image 1
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MILITARY MATHEMATICS. TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. La nova scientia. Venice Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550. image 3
MILITARY MATHEMATICS. TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. La nova scientia. Venice Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550. image 4
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MILITARY MATHEMATICS.
TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557.
La nova scientia. Venice: Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550.

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MILITARY MATHEMATICS.

TARTAGLIA, NICOLO. 1500-1557. La nova scientia. Venice: Nicolo de Bascarini, for the Author, 1550.
4to (209 x 155 mm). Woodcut title, woodcut illustrations in text. Modern quarter vellum and grey boards, titled in gilt on upper covers, gilt foliate decorations on spine. Title page chipped at lower margined, somewhat soiled, old ink inscription, some dampstaining, soiling and spotting.

Second edition of Tartaglia's work concerning ballistics, surveying, fortification and engineering, and in which he sought "a mathematical theory of defining the flight of projectiles" (PMM). Riccardi I, 496; PMM 66 (for first edition, 1537).

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