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Caroli Renaldini : Caroli Renaldini Serenissimi Magni DVCIS ETRVRIAE. Philosophi, ac Mathematici Et in Patiauino Lyceo Philosophi primae sedis. Ars Analytica Mathemativm in Tres Partes Distribvta Qvarvm Prima Vetervm Analystarvm, Secunda Recentionum Doctrinam locupletatam complectitur, atque adea de Refolutione, & Compofitione Mathematica edifferit; Tertia demum in majorem Artis illustrationem Theoremata, ac Problemata refoluta exhibet. Pars Prima. Editio SECVNDA CORRECTIOR, & AVCTIOR. Serenissim Mavritio Vvigliemlmo DVCI Saxoniae, Ivliae Cliviae, & Montivm, &c

Apud Ioannem Iacobum Hertz, Venetiis, 1684

Original full calf. Title in black and red, with a printer’s imprint, Occaisional light browning, pages 314 to 416 with slight upper margin water stain otherwise a very good copy in original full 17th century velum. Text in Italian., Small Folio (228mm x 330m, P. Half Title, Blank, Frontis Portrait, Title, Blank, Dedication(2), Printer’s(2), Preface (1-3), Preface (4-8), Theorema (3), Blank, Folding Plate, 9-534, (1), Blank, Index (30), (1); Title (2nd part), blank, 5-248, Index 17, blank., Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Carlo Renaldini after Carolus and a folding plate. Decorative head and tail pieces, decorated initial letters. With a profusion of intext mathematical formulas and equations., Volume : 2 Volumes in 1

Widely know as Simplicius Cimiento, Renaldini was a professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa from 1649 to 1666. He was mainly associated with Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608- 1679) to whom he owed his title. In correspondence with Vincenzo Viviani, he became a founding member of the most assiduous Academy of Cimento.
Looking at his other work ‘Opus Mathematicum’ the following commentary is given by Sotheran:
“In this almost unknown work Renaldini, who subsequently became one of the most influential members of the Academia del Cimanto, relates the discoveries of Vieta and Girard, and uses new curious notations. It includes, among other problems, an approximate rectification of the circle by trigonometrical means� (Sotheran, 703).
Our title is listed among the following works on the site of the Office of the National Librarian and the in the University of Rome:

 Ars Analytica Mathematicum (Florence, Padua, 1665-1684)
 Resolutioneet compositionism of mathematica (Padua, 1668)
 Philosophia rationalis, naturalis atque moralis (Padua, 1681).
 Commercium Epistolicum (Padua 1682).


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