Record ID | cp011818 |
Voet reference number | 2259 |
Museum Plantin-Moretus | c:lvd:1048414 |
Author | Simon STEVIN |
Title page transcription | DE ‖ THIENDE ‖ Leerende door onghehoorde lichticheyt ‖ allen rekeningen onder den Menschen ‖ noodich vallende, afveerdighen door ‖ heele ghetalen sonder ghebrokenen. ‖ Beschreven door SIMON STEVIN ‖ van Brugghe. ‖⊕ 44 ‖ TOT LEYDEN, ‖ By Christoffel Plantijn. ‖ M.D.LXXXV. |
Collation | 8⁰ [123]: A-B⁸, C⁴; pages 1-36, [37-40] (Errors: 8 not numbered) |
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Pages | [1]: Title [2]: Blank [3]-[8]: Den sterrekyckers, landtmeters, tapijtmeters, wijnmeters, lichaemmeters int ghemeene, muntmeesters, ende allen cooplieden, wenscht Simon Stevin gheluck (italic type, parts in roman type, marginals in italic type) 9: Cortbegryp (parts in italic type) 10-21: Text (parts and marginal in italic type) 22-36: Aenhangsel (parts and marginals in italic type) [37]: Privilege (Delft, 20 December 1584, signed by Van Langen) [38-40]: Blank |
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Copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus- A 137CambridgeBritish Library LondonBibliotheek Rotterdam - Rotterdam (The Netherlands) |
Digital copies | Museum Plantin-Moretus: A 137 (7) |
Bibliographical references | Ruelens-de Backer, page 284 (Leiden, no. 3) Bib. Belgica (1964–1970 éd.), V, page 217. Reprints: H. Bosmans, La 'Thiende' de Simon Stevin. Facsimile with introduction, Antwerp-The Hague, 1924 (Uitgaven van de Vereeniging der Antwerpsche Bibliophielen, no. 38) Facsimile with an introduction by A.J.E.M. Smeur, Nieuwkoop, 1965 (Dutch Classics on History of Science, no. 15). Reprint with English translation in The principal works of Simon Stevin, II. Mathematics, edited by D.J. Struik, Amsterdam, 1958. German translation by H. Gericke and K. Vogel, Frankfurt, 1965 (Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften, 1) |
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Note 1 | Treatise on decimal counting (pages 10-21), with an appendix giving practical examples (pages 22-36). |
Note 2 | In the dedicatory the author claims to be the first to have worked out the system, but affirms that it is so simple that it does not merit the name of invention. |
Note 3 | A French translation was also issued in 1585 (included in La pratique d'arithmetique: see no. cp010292). |
Note 4 | Listed in M 321 (De Thiende leerende alle rekeninghen afveerdighen door heele getalen sonder gebrokenen door Simon Stevin van Brugghe, f[euilles] 2½, [price:] stuivers -). |
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