Algebra in een zeldzame zestiende-eeuwse Antwerpse uitgave

Abstract

SUMMARY: In this paper the contents of a very rare booklet Insulae Melitensis, quam alias Maltam vocant, Historia by Wilhelm Klebitius is discussed, in which the things worth knowing are communicated in the form of algebraical problems. These are solved by means of an equation of the first degree. Since the book is not especially devoted to the theory of algebraical equations we me say that it gives us an impression of what the reader of this book was expected to know about those equations.