Geometria speculativa; Tractatus de quadratura circuli
Item author: Archbishop Thomas Bradwardine
Item date: 1495
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 25,350
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2006
Item institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, died of the Black Death in 1349. His book on geometry, illustrated throughout with remarkable marginal diagrams, is thought to be the first printed book on mathematics by an Englishman.
