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The Resource Trattato del radio latino : istrumento giustissimo & facile più d'ogni altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo come in terra : il quale, oltre alle operationi proprie sue, fà anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. Tolomeo, & del antico radio astronomico, inuentato dall'illustrissimo & eccellentissimo signor Latino Orsini : con li commentarij del reuerendo padre maestro Egnatio Danti da Perugia, hoggi vescouo di Alatri, & da esso di nuouo ricorretto, & ampliato con molte nuoue operationi

Trattato del radio latino : istrumento giustissimo & facile più d'ogni altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo come in terra : il quale, oltre alle operationi proprie sue, fà anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. Tolomeo, & del antico radio astronomico, inuentato dall'illustrissimo & eccellentissimo signor Latino Orsini : con li commentarij del reuerendo padre maestro Egnatio Danti da Perugia, hoggi vescouo di Alatri, & da esso di nuouo ricorretto, & ampliato con molte nuoue operationi

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[16], 112 leaves
Note
  • Second edition, following the first printed at Rome in 1583 by Vincenzo Accolti
  • Signatures: pi8 A-F8 G-H4
  • Woodcuts: printer's device on title page within ornamental cartouche, featuring scene of the Annunciation; printers' initials "MM" and "IB" within small medallion in lower center of device; ornamental initials; text illustrated with 35 illustrations of instruments and diagrams, and 3 tables
  • Corrected woodcuts of two of the scenes (leaves D1r, D2v) and two diagrams (leaves D4r, D6r) have been mounted over the originals.
  • Text printed in large roman type, with some headings in italic type
  • Dedication by the printers, addressed to patron Antonino Pio Bonelli, marchese di Cassano, is dated March 1, 1586 in Rome
  • Errata: page [12]
  • A copy of the Radio latino was in the library of Galileo Galilei; see Antonio Favaro, "La libreria di Galileo Galilei descritta ed illustrata," Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche 19 (maggio-giugno 1886): 219-290, page 267, no. 250. [New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1964]
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Trattato del radio latino : istrumento giustissimo & facile più d'ogni altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo come in terra : il quale, oltre alle operationi proprie sue, fà anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. Tolomeo, & del antico radio astronomico
Title
Trattato del radio latino
Title remainder
istrumento giustissimo & facile più d'ogni altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo come in terra : il quale, oltre alle operationi proprie sue, fà anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. Tolomeo, & del antico radio astronomico
Statement of responsibility
inuentato dall'illustrissimo & eccellentissimo signor Latino Orsini : con li commentarij del reuerendo padre maestro Egnatio Danti da Perugia, hoggi vescouo di Alatri, & da esso di nuouo ricorretto, & ampliato con molte nuoue operationi
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Language
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Summary
Treatise on the "radio latino," an instrument derived from the "regola" of Ptolemy and the ancient "radio astronomico."
Cataloging source
DLC
Citation location within source
  • page 478
  • O-318
  • CNCE 37284
  • I:393-394
  • 586
  • page 82
Citation source
  • Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum
  • Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries
  • EDIT 16
  • Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana dalla origine della stampa ai primi anni del secolo XIX
  • Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara
  • Ascarelli, F. Cinquecentine romane
Dewey number
526/.91
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
TA579
LC item number
.O7
Literary form
non fiction
Summary expansion
The instrument, constructed of five hinged pieces, with sights on each end of the hinges, measured angles between two points by sliding the point of a parallelogram along a central bar until both objects appeared within the sights. It was an all-in-one instrument and served travelers, astronomers, navigators, cartographers, artillerists and civil and military architects through the end of the 17th century. Constructed of eight bars pivoted together, the "radio latino" could be folded into a scabbard and carried on a belt, allowing the surveyor to draw it as readily as needed. Although the title states that the instrument was invented by Orsini, it was at least developed by Danti if not invented by him, and he is probably the author of the treatise and not the editor
Label
Trattato del radio latino : istrumento giustissimo & facile più d'ogni altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo come in terra : il quale, oltre alle operationi proprie sue, fà anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. Tolomeo, & del antico radio astronomico, inuentato dall'illustrissimo & eccellentissimo signor Latino Orsini : con li commentarij del reuerendo padre maestro Egnatio Danti da Perugia, hoggi vescouo di Alatri, & da esso di nuouo ricorretto, & ampliato con molte nuoue operationi
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Publication
Note
  • Second edition, following the first printed at Rome in 1583 by Vincenzo Accolti
  • Signatures: pi8 A-F8 G-H4
  • Woodcuts: printer's device on title page within ornamental cartouche, featuring scene of the Annunciation; printers' initials "MM" and "IB" within small medallion in lower center of device; ornamental initials; text illustrated with 35 illustrations of instruments and diagrams, and 3 tables
  • Corrected woodcuts of two of the scenes (leaves D1r, D2v) and two diagrams (leaves D4r, D6r) have been mounted over the originals.
  • Text printed in large roman type, with some headings in italic type
  • Dedication by the printers, addressed to patron Antonino Pio Bonelli, marchese di Cassano, is dated March 1, 1586 in Rome
  • Errata: page [12]
  • A copy of the Radio latino was in the library of Galileo Galilei; see Antonio Favaro, "La libreria di Galileo Galilei descritta ed illustrata," Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche 19 (maggio-giugno 1886): 219-290, page 267, no. 250. [New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1964]
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
18 cm (8vo)
Extent
[16], 112 leaves
Lccn
32016477
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: bound in contemporary limp vellum; remnants of two pairs of leather ties along fore-edges of covers; manuscript spine title "Tratto. del radio con sue figure." Ownership inscription on verso of front endleaf, repeated on page 112, of the Italian music theorist Lemme Rossi. Purchase, Robin Halwas, 1999.
Other physical details
illustrations (woodcuts)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)04476778
  • ucoclc4476778
Label
Trattato del radio latino : istrumento giustissimo & facile più d'ogni altro per prendere qual si voglia misura, & positione di luogo, tanto in cielo come in terra : il quale, oltre alle operationi proprie sue, fà anco tutte quelle della gran regola di C. Tolomeo, & del antico radio astronomico, inuentato dall'illustrissimo & eccellentissimo signor Latino Orsini : con li commentarij del reuerendo padre maestro Egnatio Danti da Perugia, hoggi vescouo di Alatri, & da esso di nuouo ricorretto, & ampliato con molte nuoue operationi
Publication
Note
  • Second edition, following the first printed at Rome in 1583 by Vincenzo Accolti
  • Signatures: pi8 A-F8 G-H4
  • Woodcuts: printer's device on title page within ornamental cartouche, featuring scene of the Annunciation; printers' initials "MM" and "IB" within small medallion in lower center of device; ornamental initials; text illustrated with 35 illustrations of instruments and diagrams, and 3 tables
  • Corrected woodcuts of two of the scenes (leaves D1r, D2v) and two diagrams (leaves D4r, D6r) have been mounted over the originals.
  • Text printed in large roman type, with some headings in italic type
  • Dedication by the printers, addressed to patron Antonino Pio Bonelli, marchese di Cassano, is dated March 1, 1586 in Rome
  • Errata: page [12]
  • A copy of the Radio latino was in the library of Galileo Galilei; see Antonio Favaro, "La libreria di Galileo Galilei descritta ed illustrata," Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche 19 (maggio-giugno 1886): 219-290, page 267, no. 250. [New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1964]
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
18 cm (8vo)
Extent
[16], 112 leaves
Lccn
32016477
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Note
Spec. Coll. copy: bound in contemporary limp vellum; remnants of two pairs of leather ties along fore-edges of covers; manuscript spine title "Tratto. del radio con sue figure." Ownership inscription on verso of front endleaf, repeated on page 112, of the Italian music theorist Lemme Rossi. Purchase, Robin Halwas, 1999.
Other physical details
illustrations (woodcuts)
System control number
  • (OCoLC)04476778
  • ucoclc4476778

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