Christiano Wolfio - Elementa Matheseos universae - 1735

Rare illustrated edition of this vast project of mathematical systematization that the German philosopher and scientist Christiano Wolffio undertakes to provide the exact sciences with a rational and pedagogical architecture.

This volume mainly deals with higher geometry and analysis, outlining the principles of trigonometry, solid geometry, and conic sections, while also introducing the basics of infinitesimal calculus within a perspective still marked by the Cartesian legacy and Leibnizian formalism.

Wolff and deploys his rigorous demonstrative method, based on clear definitions, explicit axioms, and an orderly progression of propositions, which gives the work both educational value and an encyclopedic character.

The style is that of a universalis mathesis: an attempt to reduce the diversity of mathematical disciplines to a coherent body, where each part is connected to the whole by a logic of necessity.

Christiano Wolfio - Elementa Matheseos Universae - 1735 - Tome III - Halae Magdeburgicae
3 pp + 380 pages -

Good condition of the binding, book in its full original brown leather, with signs of use, wear on the edges, rubbed headbands and corners, red edges, richly decorated spine with raised bands, gilded titling and volume numbers on a red morocco piece, and cold-stamped borders framing the covers.

Good interior condition, slight stains, work enriched with numerous fold-out plates, texts in two columns, marbled endpapers in good condition, ex-libris.

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