Directorium generale uranometricum in quo trigonometriae logarithmicae fundamenta, ac regulae demonstrantur, astronomicaeq; supputationes ad solam fere unigarem additionem reductuntur... [Including:] Tabvla trigonom. logarithmica in qua sinus totus 10000
first edition
1632 · Bologna
by CAVALIERI, Bonaventura
Bologna: Nicolai Tebaldini, 1632. Rare first edition of the first work on logarithms printed in Italy and this great mathematician’s first published work. Professor of Mathematics at Bologna, the Milanese Cavalieri introduced and popularized logarithms throughout his country within a generation of Napier’s invention of these “valuable auxiliaries to numerical calculation.” The Directorium covers the construction, uses, and applications of logarithms, “together with noteworthy developments in trigonometry and applications to astronomy” (E. Carruccio in DSB (truncated)