Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Of the parabola

Call number

Ms. Codex 526
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2357699
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2357699

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

17--

Summary

Consists of the definition and construction of the parabola with 58 propositions in geometry, each illustrated with a diagram.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   

Extent

39 leaves : 198 x 163 (168 x 123) mm. bound to 204 x 170 mm

Foliation

39 leaves; [ii, 1], 2-72, [73-76]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Subjects topical

• Geometry--History
• Mathematics--History

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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