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Cavalieri (Bonaventura) Directorium generale uranometricumin quo trigonometriae logarithmicae fundamenta, ac regulae demonstrantur, astronomicaeque supputationes, first edition of the author's first published work, woodcut printer's device on title, large letterpress table at end (Tabula trigonomica logarithmica), part folding, contemporary vellum, ms. title to spine, [Honeyman II 644; Riccardi I 322], small 4to, Bologna, N. Tebaldini, 1632.

***The first published work by Cavalieri, which introduced the use of logarithms to Italy. It also contains valuable contributions to the study of spherical triangles. Cavalieri was a student of Galileo's protégé Benedetto Castelli. He introduced Cavalieri to Galileo, and they exchanged a considerable amount of correspondence. Galileo was impressed by him, and recommended him for a lectureship at Bologna, commenting that "few, if any, since Archimedes, have delved as far and as deep into the science of geometry" (DSB III, 149)..

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