The Bancroft collection of books on the history of mathematics is particularly strong. The collection includes works from the 15th century such as Euclid’s Elementa Geometriae from 1482 and 18th and 19th century textbooks from the United States, Mexico, and Europe. The Bancroft Library continues to acquire new materials on the history of mathematics.
The Elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara
Imprinted at London : By Iohn Daye. 1570
Here is a sample of the major treatises that The Bancroft Library holds:
Apollonius, of Perga.
Elementa conica Apollonii Pærgei ; et, Archimedi opera, noua & breuiori methodo demonstrata
1679
Romaæ: Apud Mascardum
QA31.A6 1679
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991006623029706532
Archimedes., author.
Archimedis opera non nulla
MDLVIII 1558
Venetiis: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi f.
f QA31 .A7 1558
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991008919059706532
Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
Tychonis Brahe astronomiae instauratae progymnasmata.: Quorum haec prima pars. De restitutione motuum solis et lunae stellarumque inerrantium tractat.: Et praetereá de admirandâ nova stella anno 1572 exortâ luculenter agit.: Praemissa est authoris vita..
M. DC. III. 1603
Typis inchoata Vraniburgi Daniae.; Absoluta Pragae Bohemiae: publisher not identified
QB41 .B73 1603
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991015610479706532
Diophantus, of Alexandria.
Diophanti Alexandrini arithmeticorum libri sex, et De numeris multangulis liber vnus: cum commentariis C.G. Bacheti V.C. & obseruationibus D.P. de Fermat senatoris Tolosani; accessit Doctrinae analyticae inuentum nouum, collectum ex varijs eiusdem D. de Fermat epistolis.
MDCLXX 1670
Tolosae: Excudebat Bernardus Bosc, è regione Collegij Societatis Iesu
f QA31 D5 1670
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991040157599706532
Euclid.
Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi: in artem geometrie incipit qua[m] foelicissime.
25 May 1482
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt
f II8.V3 R28 1482e
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991003586889706532
Euclid.
The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Evclide of Megara
1570
Imprinted at London: By Iohn Daye
f QA31 .E83 1570
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991015621769706532
Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783.
Introductio in analysin infinitorum.
1748
Lausannae, M. M. Bousquet
QA302.E8 I59 1748
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991006601679706532
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Le operationi del compasso geometrico, e militare. Lettore delle matematiche nello studio di Padoua. Dedicato al serenissimo d. Cosimo Medici, principe di Toscana.
1656
Bologna, H.H. del Dozza
QA33 .G3 1656 copy 2
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991015610179706532
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
Astronomia nova aitiologetos [romanized]: sev physica coelestis, tradita commentariis de motibvs stellae Martis, ex observationibus G.V. Tychonis Brahe, jussu & sumptibus Rvdolphi II ... plurimum annorum pertinaci studio elaborata Pragae ...
1609
Heidelberg: G. Voegelinus
F QB41 .K32 1609
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991015599619706532
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, author.
Philosophia naturalis principia mathematica
anno MDCLXXXVII 1687
Londini: Jussu Societatis Regiae ac typis Iosephi Streater, prostat apud plures bibliopolas
QA803 .A3 1687
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991015697579706532
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Almagestu[m] Cl. Ptolemei: Pheludiensis Alexandrini astronomo[rum] principis ...
1515 Die. 10. Ja
F QB41.P76.A6 1515
https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/op3pcd/alma991015593969706532
This LibGuide was created by Susan McElrath, formerly of The Bancroft Library.