Exercitationes Geometricae, Ioannis Holfeld, 1773

Exercitationes Geometricae
by Ioannis Holfeld
published by the Jesuit College of St. Clement in Prague in 1773

Latin book of 65 pages containing 47 solved exercises that are illustrated by 36 figures.

Ioannis Holfeld, author of the book, was born in 1747 or 1750, probably in Bohemia, entered the Society of Jesus and studied and then taught at the College of St. Clement in Prague. The last third of his life he probably spent as a professor of mathematics at the University of Lviv, where he died in 1814.


Problems 24 and 25

Original latin assignments to the problems

Problem 35

Original latin assignments to the problem



Roman HaĊĦek, University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Education, Department of Mathematics, hasek@pf.jcu.cz