Euclide's elements :. the whole fifteen books compendiously demonstrated : with Archimedes's theorems of the sphere and cylinder investigated by the method of indivisibles /. by Isaac Barrow, D.D. late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge ; to which is annex'd, Euclide's data, and a brief treatise of regular solids ; the whole revis'd with great care, and some hundreds of errors of the former impression corrected ; by Thomas Haselden, teacher of the mathematicks.
Euclid (fl.300 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1732
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3259872
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 514 [i.e. 414], [2] p., [1] leaf of plate :. ill., frontis. (port.), graphs ;. 20 cm. (8vo). Extensive pencil annotations on title page verso, and in ink and pencil on back flyleaf and pastedown. Provenance: adhered to front pastedown: eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full calf, double plain gilt fillets to form a border, five raised bands, double gilt-ruled, red spine-label, gilt-lettered 'Barrow's Euclid', wanting diamond-shaped label at head of spine. Red speckled edges.
Makers and roles
Euclid (fl.300 BC) Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) François de Foix, comte de Candale (1502 - 1594) Haselden, Thomas, -1740 Archimedes (287-212 BC)