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A Poetical Mathematician
CARAVAGGIO, Pietro Paolo. Geometria applicationum deficientium Figura Data Specie. Numerous woodcut diagrams in the text. 2 p.l., 188 pp. 4to, cont. English speckled calf (extremities a little rubbed). Milan: B. Bidelli, 1659.
First edition of a very rare book. Caravaggio (1617-88), was an Italian poet, mathematician, and military architect in Milan and later became professor of mathematics and Greek at the Palatine Gymnasium of that city. In 16?6, he was appointed supervisor of all the principal castles in the region surrounding Milan. He left many poetical and mathematical treatises in manuscript. Fine copy. N.B.G., Vol. 8, col. 672. Riccardi, I, 243.
2250.0000