Full text: Addenda to Rara Arithmetica

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PREFACE 
It is now a third of a century since the Rar a Arithmetic a was 
published, and in that space of time there have been many 
discoveries in the held of bibliography with which it was con 
cerned. Mr. Plimpton passed away in 1936, and to the last he 
continued to add to the several branches of his large library — 
arithmetics printed before 1601, medieval manuscripts relating 
chiefly to mathematics, books and manuscripts concerned with 
history, religion, geography, calligraphy, and belles lettres in 
various languages. Some years before his death he had in mind 
a list of addenda to the Rar a Arithmetica which should include 
the acquisitions made by the library during the preceding period 
of thirty years. In this he also proposed to add such information 
relating to other works and editions as had come to his attention 
through recent catalogues of important public or private libraries 
or those of prominent and reliable dealers. 
Mr. Plimpton was well aware of the value of adding the names 
of publishers and the value of brief descriptions of such editions 
as were not in his own library, including complete collations, the 
names of the libraries consulted, and the present owners in case 
of permanent collections, but this would require an amount of 
space that would prohibit wide circulation. As the Rara Arith 
metica stood it had served and still serves the original purpose 
of its publication. Today there are few prominent dealers' lists 
of earlv literature that fail to refer to the Rara Arithmetica as 
an aid to scholars in the history of this branch of elementary 
mathematics.
	        
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