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RESEARCH GUIDES

STEM in Rare Books

A guide to works on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics in Rare Books.

16th Century

Conradi Dasypodii Institutionum Mathematicarum Voluminis Primi Erotemata. Logisticae. Geometriae. Sphaerae. Geographiae. by Cunradus Dasypodius
Call Number: QA33.D34 1593
Publication Date: 1593
[Argentinae], Pro schola argentinensi imprimebat Iosiac Rihelius, 1593.
Ioan[nis] Buteonis Logistica: Quae & Arithmetica Vulgò Dicitur in Libros Quinque Digesta: Quorum Index Summatim Habetur in Tergo: Eiusdem, ad Locum Vitruuij Corruptum Restitutio, Qui est de Proportione lapidum Mittendorum ad Balistae Foramen, Libro Decimo by Jean Borrel
Call Number: QA33.B67 1559
Publication Date: 1599
Lugduni: Apud Gulielmum Rouillium..., 1559.

17th Century

De la Nature, Qualitez et Prerogatives Admirable du Poinct, Où se Voyent Plusieurs Belles & Subtiles Curiositez by Scipion de Gramont, Sieur de Saint-Germain
Call Number: QA8.4.G7
Publication Date: 1619
Paris, Michel Daniel, 1619.
Doctrinae Triangulorum Canonicae Libri Quatuor,: Quibus Canonis Sinuum, Tangentium, & Secantium Constructio, Triangulorum tam Planorum Quam Sphaericorum Expedita Dimensio, Breviter ac Perspicè Traditur... by Willebrord Snellius
Call Number: QA33.S6
Publication Date: 1627
Lugduni Batavorum,: Ex officinâ Ioannis Maire., MDCXXVII. [1627]
Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, Intorno à due Nuoue Scienze, Attenenti alla Mecanica & i Movimenti Locali...Con una Appendice del Centro di Grauità D’Alcuni Solidi by Galileo Galilei
Call Number: QA33.G28
Publication Date: 1638
Leida, Appresso gli Elsevirii, 1638.
Euclidis Elementorum Libri Octo: Ad Faciliorem Captum Accommodati by Claude-François Milliet Dechales
Call Number: QA451.D47 1660
Publication Date: 1660
Lugduni: Apud Benedictum Coral ..., 1660.
Geometria by René Descartes
Call Number: QA33.D43
Publication Date: 1683
Amstelodami, ex Typographia Blaviana, 1683.
Principia Matheseos Universalis sev Introductio ad Geometriae Methodum. Conscripta ab Er. Bartholino by René Descartes
Call Number: B1868.P7L3 1683
Publication Date: 1683
Amstelodami, Blaviana, 1683.

18th Century

Ars Conjectandi: Opus Posthumum: Accedit Tractatus de Seriebus Infinitis, et Epistola Gallicè Scripta de Ludo Pilae Reticularis by Jakob Bernoulli
Call Number: QA273.B47
Publication Date: 1713
Basileae: Impensis Thurnisiorum, Fratrum, 1713.
The Doctrine of Chances: or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play by Abraham de Moivre
Call Number: QA273.M64
Publication Date: 1756
London, Printed for A. Millar, 1756.
Arithmetick, Both in the Theory and Practice, Made Plain and Easy in all the Common and Useful Rules, Both in Whole Numbers and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal by John Hill, Gent.
Call Number: QA101.H55 1772
Publication Date: 1772
London: Printed for W. Strahan ... [et al.], 1772.

19th Century

Dissertatio Inauguralis Mathematica Interpolatione Serierum Consentiente Illustri Philosophorum Ordine in Academia Helmstadiensi by Johann Joseph Anton Ide
Call Number: QA3.M3
Publication Date: 1802
Brunsvigge, Carolum Reichard, 1802.
Essais sur L’Enseignement en Général, et sur Celui des Mathématiques en Particulier by S. F. Lacroix
Call Number: QA11.L2
Publication Date: 1805
Paris, Courcier, 1805.
Anleitung zur Rechenkunst, Geometrie und Mechanik in Beyspielen by Franz Konrad Bartl
Call Number: QA39.B3
Publication Date: 1806
Prag, Kaspar Widtmann, 1806.
Bija Ganita, or, The Algebra of the Hindus by Bhāskarācārya and Edward Strachey
Call Number: QA27.I4B4713 1812
Publication Date: 1812
London: W. Glendinning, [1812?]
An Elementary Treatise on the Application of Trigonomentry to Orthographic and Stereographic Projection, Dialling, Mensuration of Heights and Distances, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, Surveying and Levelling: Together with Logorithmic and Other Tables... by John Farrar
Call Number: QA552.L148 1820
Publication Date: 1833
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1833.
Porter’s New System of Mathematics: With the Addition of a Complete Ready Reckoner: For the Use of Farmers and Mechanics by J.H. Porter
Call Number: ACEI 548
Publication Date: 1843
Hartford: John G. Wells, 1843, c1841.
Sadler’s Counting House Arithmetic: A New and Improved Work on Business Calculations: with Valuable Reference Tables: Designed for Bankers, Brokers... and Specially Arranged and Adapted as a Practical Text Book for Business Colleges, High Schools... by W.H. Sadler
Call Number: HF5691.S23 1882
Publication Date: 1882
Baltimore, Md.: W.H. Sadler, 1882, c1881.
Sadler’s Commercial Arithmetic. Business College Edition by W.H. Sadler
Call Number: QA103.S3 1894
Publication Date: 1894
Baltimore, Md., The Sadler co., 1894 [c1886]