Stereometria Doliorum Vinariorum

work by Kepler

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In Johannes Kepler: Astronomical work of Johannes Kepler
His Stereometria Doliorum Vinariorum (“The Stereometry of Wine Barrels”) was the first book published in Linz. Kepler objected to the rule-of-thumb methods of wine merchants to estimate the liquid contents of a barrel. He also refused to be bound strictly by Archimedean methods; eventually he extended…
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