Tetragonismus : idest circuli quadratura per Ca[m]panu[m], Archimede[m] syracusanu[m] atq[ue] Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta
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Tetragonismus : idest circuli quadratura per Ca[m]panu[m], Archimede[m] syracusanu[m] atq[ue] Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta
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- idest circuli quadratura per Ca[m]panu[m], Archimede[m] syracusanu[m] atq[ue] Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta
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- First printed Latin texts of Archimedes.
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- DLM
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- volume 2, page 72
- volume 1, pages 40, 220
- 1388
- no. 72
- volume 7, page 105
- Citation source
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- Clagett, M. Archimedes in the Middle Ages
- Riccardi, P. Biblioteca matematica italiana dalla origine della stampa ai primi anni del secolo XIX
- Essling, V.M. Livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe
- Printing and the mind of man (2nd ed.)
- Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux
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- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Summary expansion
- According to E.J. Dijksterhuis's Archimedes, his work on the measurement of a circle contains "one of the most popular results of [Archimedes'] mathematical investigations:" he computed the value of pi by calculating the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle, and demonstrated the quadrature of a parabola by purely geometric methods. The volume opens with a text erroneously attributed to Campanus of Novara (here further misattributed to the humanist Giovanni antonio Campano); Archimedes' work begins on leaf 15, with a discussion of the quadrature of the parabola and the circumference of the circle; at end, there is a brief excerpt from Boethius dealing with the same question (leaves 31-32). For the Archimedes, Gaurico used the translation of William of Moerbeke, made around 1269, which he found in a manuscript now in Madrid
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