Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Niccolo Tartaglia's General Trattato di Numeri et Misure

Detail of the title page of part I of the General Trattato di Numeri (General Treatise on Number and Measure) (1556) of Niccolo Tartaglia (1500-1557). This is an extensive work on elementary mathematics that was popular in Italy for several decades after its publication.


Here Tartaglia is showing how to determine the area of an irregular curved shape.

Niccolo Tartaglia's General Trattato di Numeri et Misure

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