Below is a list of selected images from the following books at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. Click on the title of the document to go to a page containing the images from that book, where more information is provided. For hundreds of other "mathematical treasures" from a wide array of institutions, museums, and individuals, visit the Index to Mathematical Treasures in Convergence.
Author | Title | Date |
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana | Instituzioni analitche ad uso della gioventu italiana (Foundations of Analysis for the Use of Italian Youth) and Analytical Institutions (in Italian and English, 13 images) | 1748 and 1801 |
Algarotti, Francesco | Il newtonianismo per le dame ovvero dialoghi sopra la luce e i colori and Le Newtonianisme pour les dames, ou, Entretiens sur la lumiere, sur les couleurs, et sur l'attraction / traduits de lÌtalien and Il newtonianismo per le dame, ovvero Dialoghi sopra la luce, i colori, e l'attrazione (in Italian and French, 2 images) | 1737, 1738, and 1739 |
Berkeley, George | The Analyst (8 images) | 1734 |
Bombelli, Rafael | L'algebra parte maggiore dell’aritmetica divisa in tre libri (6 images) | 1579 (first 1572) |
Cardano, Girolamo | Ars Magna (4 images) | 1545 |
Caswell, John | A Brief (but full) Account of the Doctrine of Trigonometry, Both Plain and Spherical (2 images) | 1685 |
Cavalieri, Bonaventura | Geometria indivisibilibus (10 images) | 1635 |
De Moivre, Abraham | Doctrine of Chances (5 images) | 1738 (first 1711/1718) |
Du Châtelet, Émilie | Institutions de Physique (10 images) | 1741 |
Du Châtelet, Émilie | Principes Mathématiques de la Philosophie Naturelle (6 images) | 1759 |
Euclid | Elementa Geometriae (4 images) | 1482 |
Euclid | Elements (in Arabic, 4 images) | 1594 |
Fibonacci (aka Leonardo Pisano) | Liber Abaci (7 images) | 1837 edition (first 1202) |
Fibonacci (aka Leonardo Pisano) | Practica Geometriae ed Opuscoli (3 images) | 1862 edition (first 1220) |
de Fontenelle, Bernard | A Panegyric upon Sir Isaac Newton (in English, 2 images) | 1728 |
Galilei, Galileo | Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche intorno à due nuoue Scienze and Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences (in Italian and English, 8 images) | 1638 |
Harriot, Thomas | Artis Analyticae Praxis (6 images) | 1631 |
l'Hospital, Guillaume Francois de | Analyse des Infiniment Petits (14 images) | 1696 |
Jurin, James | A defence of Sir Isaac Newton (2 images) | 1734 |
Köbel, Jacob | Geometrei (4 images) | 1535 |
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis | Traité de la Résolution des Equations Numérique (7 images) | 1808 (first 1798) |
Morland, Samuel | The Description and Use of Two Arithmetic Instruments (11 images) | 1673 |
Oughtred, William | Elementi Decimi Euclidis Declaratio (8 images) | 1662 |
Oughtred, William | Theorematum in Libris Archimedis de Sphaera & Cylindro Declaratio (3 images) | 1663 |
Pacioli, Luca
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Divina Proportione (3 images)
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1509
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Pacioli, Luca | Euclid’s Elements (7 images) | 1509 |
Pacioli, Luca | Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita (5 images) | 1494 |
Reisch, Gregor | Margarita Philosophica (14 images) | 1517 (first 1503) |
Simson, Robert | Sectionum Conicarum (5 images) | 1735 |
Simson, Robert | The Elements of Euclid (7 images) | 1756 |
Simson, Robert | Opera Quaedam Reliqua (5 images) | 1776 |
Stoeffler, Johann | Elucidatio fabricae vsusque astrolabii (3 images) | 1524 (first 1513) |
Torricelli, Evangelista | Lezione Accademiche (Academic Lectures) (2 images) | 1715 |
Torricelli, Evangelista | Opera Geometrica (4 images) | 1644 |
van Ceulen, Ludolph | Vanden Circkel (4 images) | 1596 |
van Ceulen, Ludolph | De circulo et adscriptis liber (8 images) | 1619 |
van Ceulen, Ludolph | Surdorum quadraticorum arithmetica (4 images) | 1619 |
Viète, François | Opera Mathematica (8 images) | 1646 |
Voltaire | Élémens de la philosophie de Newton (7 images) | 1738 |