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Archimedes, Campano da Novara and Boethius.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Campanus Archimedem Syracusanum atque Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinventa [edited by Luca Gaurico]. (Venice: Giovanni Battista Sessa, 28 August 1503)
4to (188 x 139mm.), large woodcut illustration and printer's device on title-page, different printer's device below colophon, woodcut initials and diagrams, modern marbled boards, headlines shaved
Provenance
Josephus Martinus of Lucca (?), stamp on title-page
Literature
Censimento 16 CNCE 8810; Riccardi i, 40
Catalogue Note
the first appearance in print of a work by archimedes. The treatises by Archimedes included in this short work, Quadratura paraboli and Quadratura circuli, are in the Latin translation of William of Moerbeke made in the thirteenth century (the original manuscript of Moerbeke's translations is now in the Vatican Library). The text for this edition was taken from a fifteenth-century Italian manuscript now in the Biblioteca nacional in Madrid.