Mathematical Treasures: The Linda Hall Library

The Linda Hall Library, an independent research library specializing in engineering, science, and technology located in Kansas City, Missouri, has a History of Science Collection containing over 10,000 books printed between the 15th century and the present. Many of these volumes relate to mathematics, including over 75 complete works available from the LHL Digital Collections. See the article by Cynthia J. Huffman, "Mathematical Treasures at the Linda Hall Library." Convergence's Mathematical Treasures feature images from a number of these great books; see the listing below.

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Mathematical Treasures from the Linda Hall Library

• Euclid's Elementa Geometricae, Ratdolt printing (1482)
• Luca Pacioli's Sūma de Arithmetica Geometria Proportioni & Proportionalita (1494)
• Luca Pacioli's Divina Proportione (1509)
• Luca Pacioli's Euclid's Elements (1509)
• Gregor Reisch's Margarita Philosophica (1517 edition)
• Johann Stoeffler's Elucidatio fabricae vsusque astrolabii (1524 edition)
• Jacob Köbel's Geometrei (1535)
• Girolamo Cardano's Ars Magna (1545)
• Raphael Bombelli’s L'algebra parte maggiore dell’aritmetica divisa in tre libri (1579 edition)
• Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Arabic translation, Medicean printing (1594)
• Ludolph Van Ceulen's Vanden Circkel (1596)
• Ludolph Van Ceulen's De circulo et adscriptis liber, trans. Willebrord Snell (1619)
• Ludolph Van Ceulen's Surdorum quadraticorum arithmetica, trans. Willebrord Snell (1619)
• Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis (1631)
• Bonaventura Cavalieri's Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota (1635)
• Galileo Galilei's Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638 and 1730 English translation by Thomas Weston)
• Evangelista Torricelli's Opera Geometrica (1644)
• François Viète's Opera Mathematica (1646)
• William Oughtred's Elementi Decimi Euclidis Declaratio (1662)
• William Oughtred's Theorematum in Libris Archimedis de Sphaera & Cylindro Declaratio (1663)
• Samuel Morland's The Description and Use of Two Arithmetick Instruments (1673)
• John Caswell's A Brief (but full) Account of the Doctrine of Trigonometry, Both Plain and Spherical (1685)
• Guillaume François Marquis de l’Hospital's Analyse des Infiniment Petits, Pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes (1696)
• Evangelista Torricelli's Lezione Accademiche (1712)
• Bernard de Fontenelle's A Panegyric upon Sir Isaac Newton (1728 English translation)
• George Berkeley's The Analyst; or a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician (1734)
• James Jurin's A Defence of Sir Isaac Newton (1734)
• Robert Simson’s Sectionum Conicarum (1735)
• Francesco Algarotti's Il newtonianismo per le dame (1737, 1738 French translation)
• Abraham De Moivre’s Doctrine of Chances (1738, original 1711/1718)
• Voltaire's Élémens de la philosophie de Newton (1738)
• Émilie du Châtelet's Institutions de Physique (1741 edition)
• Maria Agnesi's Instituzioni Analitiche (1748)
• Robert Simson’s The Elements of Euclid (1756)
• Émilie du Châtelet's Principes Mathématiques (1759)
• Robert Simson's Opera Quaedam Reliqua (1776)
• Maria Agnesi's Analytical Institutions, trans. John Colson (1801)
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange's Traité de la Résolution des Equations Numérique (1808 edition)
• Fibonacci's Liber abaci, ed. Baldassarre Boncompagni (1857 edition)
• Fibonacci's Practica Geometriae, ed. Baldassarre Boncompagni (1857 edition)