- Published / Created:
- [1 June 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.06.01.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A figure composed of the tools of the trade of a mathematican or geometer, standing on two volumes of an atlas
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Two lines of text below title: Friend of the young idea in plane geometry, he teaches it to shoot by trigger-nometry! -T. H., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1824.
- Publisher:
- Published June 1, 1829, by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square
- Subject (Topic):
- Arcimboldesque figures, Geometry, and Tools
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A geometrician [graphic].
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- Creator:
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650
- Published / Created:
- 1697.
- Call Number:
- K8 D44 Rg697
- Image Count:
- 140
- Description:
- BEIN K8 D44 Rg697: Text uncut. Imperfect: t.p. and p. 85 badly mutilated and mounted; wrapper frayed and mounted., Signatures: [A]¹B-F⁸G³., The wrapper for the cards has title: Geometre and the mechanick powers represented in a pack of playing cards, made and sold by J Moxon att the Attlas in Warwick lane London., and First part (p. 1-53) probably written by Joseph Moxon.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by J. Moxon at the Atlas in Warwicklane
- Subject (Topic):
- Geometry, Mechanics, Card games, and Playing cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also A discourse of the mechanick powers
- Creator:
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, fl. 1230
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 797
- Image Count:
- 80
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Iohannes de Sacrobosco (1000-1210), Tractatus de sphaera.
- Description:
- 2-line plain initials alternately in red and blue at the beginning of the subdivisions of the text. They are placed almost entirely in the margin and are missing ff. 17v, 28r and 33r. Guide letters, written in the space reserved for the initials, are equally often missing. On f. 1r the Prologue opens with a 4-line foliate initial in red, green and blue with two flowers on a gold background and floral extensions in the inner margin, in Lombard style; in the lower margin of the same page a painted double-headed imperial eagle in black, its two heads with a golden crown and on its chest an oval shield with the coat of arms or, three bends azure., Binding: Original Italian, undecorated blue-stained leather over beech boards. Sewn on three double leather thongs. Remnants of three clasps attached to the front board (one at the upper, one at the lower and one at the right-hand side); thin brass engraved catches on the rear cover, decorated with a floweret and the Gothic majuscule “S”. The parchment pastedowns are now detached from the boards., Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 149). Purchased from Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., Parchment end leaves., Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria/Currens, widely spaced. The first letter after an initial is in Capitalis., and Watermark: two crossed arrows, similar to Briquet 6269-6275, especially to Briquet 6271 (attested 1462). The whole group and its variants are attested in Northeastern Italy 1448-1495.
- Subject (Name):
- Sacro Bosco, Joannes de,--fl. 1230
- Subject (Topic):
- Astronomy, Medieval, Geometry, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tractatus de sphaera