[Rarebooks] FS: Works of the Western World's first woman mathematician. Milan: 1747

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(MATHEMATICS) Agnesi, Maria Gaetana. INSTITUZIONI ANALITICHE. Ad Uso
Della Gioventu' Italiana. Milan: Nella Regia-Ducal Corte. 1747. First
edition. 4to. 2 vols. (20),428,(2);(429)-1020,(2)pp. Illustrated with
59 copper engraved folding plates and 2 folding tables. Copper engraved
title page vignettes, headpieces and historiated initials. Orig.
vellum, gilt lettered spine labels, a bit soiled. Both spines with
minor worming. Title pages with some old soiling & foxing. Engraved
armorial bookplates on front pastedowns.    $4,500.00
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) is "the first woman in the Western
World who can accurately be called a mathematician... She treated
finite processes in the first volume and infinitesimal analysis in the
second. There were many genuinely new things in her masterpiece."
D.S.B., I, pp. 75-76; Riccardi, I8; Honeyman, 20.

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