[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Maria Agnesi, Europe's first woman mathematician. Milan: 1748

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MATHEMATICS) Agnesi, Maria Gaetana. INSTITUZIONI ANALITICHE. Ad Uso Della Gioventu' Italiana. Milan: Nella Regia-Ducal Corte. 1748. First edition. 4to. 2 vols. (20),428,(2);(429)-1020,(2)pp. Illustrated with 59 copper engraved folding plates and 2 folding tables, complete.  Large copper engraved title page vignettes, headpieces and historiated initials. Early 19th century calf over paste paper boards, each volume with 2 spine labels. Each title page with a small 19th. century rubber stamp, "Regno D' Italia. Deposito della Guerra."                       $3,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
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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