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Bolaffio, Jozé Vita Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini
Originally published in French in 1554, this Latin
edition followed two years later. Boissière considered
himself a mathematics teacher and used the game of
Rythmomachia as a vehicle for teaching arithmetic.
Smith (History of Mathematics) indicates that Of the
three standard treatises on the ancient number game
of Rythmomachia … this is the clearest. All three are
represented in this collection (see entries for Barozzi,
1572, and Jordanus, 1514), and the other entries should
be consulted for details. It is perhaps the clearest because
it is, by far, the longest of the three and thus contains
more detailed explanations of everything from the shape
of the game board to the shapes of the pieces. According
to Folkerts, Boissière’s history of the game is faulty.
An English translation of this work is in J. F. C. Richards,
“Boissière’s Pythagorean game,” Scripta Mathematica,
vol. 12 (1946) pp. 177–217.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Some of the gaming pieces
B 193
Bolaffio, Jozé Vita
B 193
Numeros certos para formar as combinaçoens de
cambio entre a Praça de Lisboa e diversas outras
Praças da Europa que tem cambio estabelecido com a
mesma.
Year: 1803
Place: Vienna
Publisher: Mathias André Schmidt
Edition: 1st
Language: Portuguese
Figures: printed engraved table
Binding: contemporary paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. [14], [2]
Size: 191x152 mm
This set of tables relates the currency of Lisbon to that of
several major European trading centers.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 194
Bolle, Georges, editor
Conférence sur les applications des machines
statistiques au P. -L.- M.
Year: 1930
Place: Nancy
Publisher: Imprimerie Berger-Levrault
Edition: 1st
Language: French
Figures: 2 photographic plates
Binding: original paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. 22, [10]
Size: 270x180 mm
These are the proceedings of a conference on punched
card tabulating machines held in Paris. There is little
technical detail, but several interesting photographs show
the participants at the conference banquet or watching
demonstrations of the equipment in use.
Illustrations available:
Front cover
Bond, Henry (ca.1600–1678)
See Phillippes, Henry; The sea-mans kalendar: or, an
ephemerides of the sun, moon, and certain of the
most notable fixed stars, 1674.
B 195
Bonelli, Maria Luisa Righini
Catalogo degli strumenti del Museo di Storia della
Scienza
Year: 1954
Place: Florence
Publisher: Olschki
Edition: 1st
Language: Italian
Figures: 16 photographic plates (1 folding)
Binding: contemporary quarter leather boards; spine gilt
Pagination: pp. viii, 394, [2]
Size: 234x162 mm
Reference: Not in Rcdi BMI
This is a catalog of the scientific instruments in the
collection housed in the Museo di Storia della Scienza
in Florence. The section on mathematical instruments
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