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Monthly Archives: June 2009

THE MATH PROBLEM LEONARDO COULDN’T SOLVE

Monday, June 29, 2009 Posted in Rare Books

The artist Uffenbach’ss extremely rare tract on squaring the circle UFFENBACH, Philipp. De Quadratura circuli mechanici. Das ist: Ein newer Kurtzer, hochnützlicher und leichter mechanischer Tractat und bericht von der Quadratur dess Circkels, etc. in Verlegung dess Authoris: Franckfurt, 1619. 19th cebtury marbled boards. VERY RARE.  No copies in 30 years of the ABPC auction...

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