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Uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Toronto, Harvard, Gött<strong>in</strong>gen and Catania;<br />

see Corniani, I Secoli della Letteratura italiana dopo il suo Risorgimento, 1856, pp.<br />

158–160.<br />

The Use of Mavvthematics<br />

48 GRÜNBERGER, Georg. Rede von der manichfaltigen<br />

Brauchbarkeit mathematischer Kenntnisse und dem Nutzen e<strong>in</strong>es<br />

verbreiteten Unterrichtes <strong>in</strong> denselben, gehalten <strong>in</strong> e<strong>in</strong>er öVentlichen<br />

Versammlung der kurfürstl. Akademie der Wissenschaften an dem<br />

höchsterfreulichen Geburtstage Sr. kurfürstl. Durchl. Karl Theodors.<br />

Munich, Maria Anna Vötter<strong>in</strong>n, 1784. £380<br />

4to, pp. 73, [1] blank, decorative <strong>in</strong>itials and head- and tail-pieces;<br />

contemporary marbled wrappers, an attractive wide-marg<strong>in</strong>ed copy.<br />

First and only edition of this ‘promotional’ talk on the value of mathematics,<br />

not just <strong>in</strong> everyday life, but <strong>in</strong> all Welds of science and bus<strong>in</strong>ess.<br />

Grünberger stresses the importance of mathematics as a part of general<br />

education, encourag<strong>in</strong>g logical th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g and the search for proof, and outl<strong>in</strong>es<br />

its <strong>in</strong>Xuence <strong>in</strong> all Welds of science, <strong>in</strong>dustry and exploration. He gives<br />

extensive examples from the Welds of m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, survey<strong>in</strong>g, military science,<br />

statistics etc., and makes some pert<strong>in</strong>ent remarks on the cross-fertilisation<br />

between empirical data and theoretical formulae. He cites extensively from<br />

major mathematicians of the time, especially Euler.<br />

Grünberger (1749–1820) was professor for mathematics at the Bavarian<br />

Agricultural Academy and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences;<br />

he also published <strong>in</strong> scientiWc forestry management.<br />

49 GUDEN, Philipp Peter. Polizey der Industrie, oder<br />

Abhandlung von den Mitteln, den Fleiß der E<strong>in</strong>wohner zu<br />

ermuntern, welcher die Königl. Groß-Brittannische Societät der<br />

Wissenschaften zu Gött<strong>in</strong>gen i. J. 1766. den Preis zuerkannt hat.<br />

Braunschweig, Fürstliches Waysenhaus, 1768. £1400<br />

8vo, pp. [xiv], 480, [1, errata], engraved vignette on title, two woodcut<br />

headpieces; title and errata leaf a little browned, otherwise a fresh and<br />

clean copy <strong>in</strong> contemporary marbled calf, sp<strong>in</strong>e ornamented and lettered<br />

<strong>in</strong> gilt; covers rubbed and with traces of worm<strong>in</strong>g; from the library of<br />

the Gött<strong>in</strong>gen Royal Society of Sciences with their large oval stamp, and<br />

release stamp, on title-verso.<br />

<strong>Rare</strong> Wrst edition of this award-w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g dissertation on the active encouragement<br />

of <strong>in</strong>dustry and commerce, written by a Hanoverian civil servant<br />

and proliWc author on <strong>in</strong>surance mathematics and political economy. Guden<br />

covers the entire Weld of political economy, from monetary theory, over the<br />

legal framework for a thriv<strong>in</strong>g economy to <strong>in</strong>frastructure (roads, factories,<br />

susanne schulz-falster rare books

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