Lot 125: Finé, Oronce

Finé, Oronce
De rebus mathematicis, hactenus desideratis, libri iiii. Paris: M. Vascosan, 1556, folio, [10] 136, illustrated with diagrams throughout, contemporary limp vellum, ink title on backstrip, inscription cut from front free endpaper [loss of endpaper approx 4cm high by 15cm wide], interior clean

Note: BMSTC French, Adams F471

Finé (1494-1555) was professor of mathematics at the College Royale in Paris and is chiefly remembered as the principal initiator of the renaissance in French mathematical studies in the 16th century, "it appears that the goal of his publications, which range in subject from astronomy to instrumental music, was to popularise the university science that he himself had been taught." [Poulle]