FIRST SWEDISH EUCLID-EDITION.

EUCLID OF ALEXANDRIA - GESTRINIUS, MARTIN ERIK.

In geormetriam Euclidis Demonstrationum Libri Sex. In quibus Geometria planorum traditur, & brevis Notis perspicue explicatur. Impensis & sumptibus Authoris.

Uppsala, Eschillus Matthiæ, 1637. Small 4to. Cont. full vellum over wood. Spine ends worn, tears to hinges, but not broken, lower edges of boards with old repairs. Some old ink annotations on boards. Inside frontcover and on title many old owner names, small wholes cut in titel without loss of letters. First ab. 20 leaves with a faint dampstain in upper margin, inkspots on last page. Internally clean. (24),350,(2) pp., numerous geometrical diagrams in the text.

Scarce first edition of the first Swedish edition of Euclid's Elements (Book I-VI) with Gestrinius' commentaries to the axioms and porpositions and with his attempt of a proof of the "Parallel-axiom" (The Fifth Postulate). In the preface he discusses the use of plane-geometry in the theories of Aristoteles, Eudoxus, Ptolemy and Kepler. - Gastrinius (1594-1648) became professor of mathematics in Uppsala in 1621 after studies in Greifswald.
Collijn (1600-Talet) I:310. - Riccardi p. 436 (1637,2) - Poggendorff I:889. - Not in Max Steck.

Order-nr.: 34701