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LEO CADOGAN RARE BOOKS

MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION

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Pescheck, Christian: Vorhoff der Meß-Kunst: darinnen die Anfangs-Gründe dieser edlen Wissenschaft, d. Gestallt deutlich vorgetragen, u. d. dazu gehörige Instrumenta erkläret werden [...] Worbey d. nötigsten Instrumenta, in Holzschnitt gebracht sind, u. wie solche sollendurch d. Buchbinder u. Tischler zum Gebrauch construiret werden, gezeiget.
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Rechender-Feldmässer, oder Geometra Welcher die bey der Geometrie eingeführte und sogenannte Decimal-Rechnung nicht allein mit allen deren Speciebus und Regeln sowohl nach dem Länge- und Quadrat- oder Flächen- aus auch Cubic- oder Körper-maasse ausführlich beschreibet sondern auch vermittelt derselben, mancherley der Feldmeßkunst vorfallende Casus und Aufgaben deutlich und gründlich aufzulösen, lehret.
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Selbstlehrender Trigonometra, oder Dreyeck-Mässer, welcher aller gradlinichten Triangul, ihre Winckel und Linien, vermittelst derer Tabularum Sinuum, Tangentium und Secantium, als auch Logarithmorum, dergestalt leicht und gründlich aufzulösen und zuberechnen lehret.
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Reduction der Sächsischen müntzen in sich selbst, und in die gebräuchlichsten sorten der benachbarten länder samt ausführlichen zins-rechnungen zu fünf und sechs pro cento ; nebst einem anhange von getraidicht-maaß, pappier-rechnungen und vermögen-steuern.
Budissin [Bautzen] David Richter (last: Johann George Hüneln). 1721 [1730] [1730] [1713].

Sammelband - probably from the library of a later member of the family - of illustrated mathematical works, all but one by a noteworthy author. The first two cover geometry (including practical geometry and surveying), sums and measurement; the third covers trigonometry; and the last covers exchange. This last is the only that is not listed as by the author Christian Pescheck (1676-1744), but was also printed in Bautzen in eastern Saxony. This town is some 30 miles from the town of Zittau, on the border with Bohemia, where Pescheck was a schoolmaster. “In the field of elementary education, Germany produced a number of important writers, but few whose names can be rated as international. Among the most industrious of the group was Christian Pescheck, who wrote a large number of textbooks and was one of the first of the German writers to consider seriously the methods of teaching the subject” (Smith). The great Saxon astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch (1723-1788), rediscoverer of Halley’s Comet, is believed to have taught himself astronomy from one of Pescheck’s books.

(Also present - prior to the last work - is a copy without prelims. of Pescheck’s Welcher Auf dem, nicht jederman bekannten, sehr hohen Berge derer Mathematischen Wissenschafften Die daselbst Befindlichen Arith- und Geometrischen Wurtzeln, als Radicem quadratam, cubicam, Zensizensicam [...] lehret (Zittau 1727) (VD18 15320480), another book on geometry and arithmetic.)

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First editions. 8vo. (16.9 cms. x 10.5 cms.), pp. [30] 343 [1]; [8] 88; 7, 134 [2]; [8] 469 [1] [34]. With two blanks in final section of last work. Titles of first and last works in red and black, engraved frontispiece to first work, numerous woodcut illustrations, including full-page measuring instrument (verso blank) at end of second work, the last work comprises mostly tables. At end of second work also, a fold-out woodcut illustration (probably belonging to a different issue of the first work). Last work partially unopened. Light browning, occasional slight worming, one bifolium in first work loosening and fold-out slightly torn and mended with tape to verso. Bound in contemporary vellum boards, fore edge cover extensions, title inked to spine, all edges red. Traces of adhesive to front pastedown, inscription to same of Gu. M. Pescheck 1814.

I: VD18 12674168; II: 11575409; III: 15320464; IV: 10267174. OCLC shows copies outside mainland Europe at (I) UCB; (II, III) Harvard. David Eugene Smith, ‘History of Mathematics’ (2 vols., New York 1958) I, 502.

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