Hypomnemata mathematica, : hoc est eruditus ille pulvis, in quo se exercuit illustrissimus, illustrissimo & antiquissimo stemmate ortus Princeps, ac Dominus, Mauritius Princeps Auraïcus, Comes Nassoviae, Cattimoelibocorum, Viandae, Moersii, &c. Marchio Verae, & Vlissinge, &c. Dominus civitatis Gravae, & ditonis Cuyc, civitatum uyt, Daesburch, &c. Gubernator Geldriae, Hollandiae, Zelandiae, Westfisiae, Zutphaniae, Vltrajecti, Transisalane, &c. Imperator exercitus Provinciarum foedere consociatarum Belgii, Architalassus Generalis, &c. /
Stevin, Simon,1548-1620.
Snellius, Willebrord,1580-1626.
Paets, Jan,printer.
Faculty of Advocates (Scotland).Library,former owner.StEdNL Cn.2.4, Cn.2.5.
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] : Ex officina Ioannis Patii, Academiae Typographi.,
Anno M.D.C. VIII. [1608]
Pagination: t. 1: [16], 343, [1], 188, 335, [1] p.; t. 2: 184 p.; t. 3: 100 p.; t. 4: 196 p.; t. 5: 9, [3], 21, [3], 19, [1], 51-88, [2], 8, 39, [1], 139-214 p. (p. [2]-[3] of the 3 unnumbered p. at beginning are a blank leaf).
Title pages of tomus 1 pars 2 and tomi 2 to 4 are dated M.D. CV.
Tomus primus is in 3 parts: Mathematicorum hypomnematum, de cosmographia (in 4 books and appendix, each with half title) -- Secunda pars cosmographiae, de geographia -- Cosmographiae pars tertia de coeli motu (half title only). Tomus secundus Mathematicorum hypomnematum de geometriae praxi (in 6 books, each with half title). Tomus tertius Mathematicorum hypomnematum de optica (in 2 books, each with half title). Tomus quartus Mathematicorum hypomnematum de statica (in 5 books and 4 part Additamentum, each with half title). Tomus quintus Mathematicorum hypomnematum, de miscellaneis (in several sections with 14 half titles).
Title vignette, printer's marks, tail pieces, initials.
The front pastedown has the bookplate of The Society of Accountants in Edinburgh.
The recto of the front free endpaper has the manuscript transcription "Ex libris bibliotecae facultatib juridicae Edinburgi."
Mathematics
Cosmography
Geometry
Optics
Statics