Nicole Oresme and the Kinematics of Circular Motion (University of Wisconsin Publications in Medieval Science.) (English and Latin Edition)

Madison, Milwaukee and London: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1971. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. University of Wisconsin Publications in Medieval Science. Grant, Edward Black cloth boards with dulled gilt titling on spine, worn at extremities. Columbia University stamped (now partially removed) on page edges. Binding is sound. Text is unmarked. Rear pastedown has a scar where pocket removed, and front pastedown has a white sticker covering a presumed library stamp. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'That Nicole Oresme was one of the most significant authors of mathematical and physical works during the Middle Ages is now beyond dispute. Recent editions of some of his major treatises bear incontestable witness to his intellectual powers.... The critical text established here from seven manuscripts represents not only the first printed Latin edition of Oresme's Tractatus de commensurabilitate vel incommensurabilitate motuum celi, but also the first English translation.' -from the preface. Includes selective index of Latin mathematical, astronomical and astrological terms. Includes subject index. Kinematics--Early works to 1800, Celestial mechanics--Early works to 1800, Science, Medieval--Sources