François Viète.
Paris: 1861. Etching on tissue-thin Japon paper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches (210 x 140 mm), full margin. Scattered light colored foxing throughout, handling creases, and a paper tape repair along the left sheet edge on the verso. There are also scattered modern inscriptions (accession numbers) in pencil on the verso and recto in the margins.
[Delteil 79 VI; Schneiderman 80 VI].
François Viète, Seigneur de la Bigotière (1540–1603), is known by mathematicians as the “Father of Algebra.”.
Item number: 755
Price: $750.00
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