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

Title remainder

idest circuli quadratura per Ca[m]panu[m], Archimede[m] syracusanu[m] atq[ue] Boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta

Contributor

• Garisenda antiquariato, libri, e stampe (Bologna, Italy)
• Campano, da Novara, -1296
• Archimedes
• Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1489-1505
• Bibliotheca Wireniana Solakraensis
• Boethius, -524
• Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980
• Gaurico, Luca, 1476-1558
• Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana

Editor

• Gaurico, Luca, 1476-1558

Former owner

• Bibliotheca Wireniana Solakraensis
• Belt, Elmer, 1893-1980

Printer

• Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1489-1505

Translator

• Gaurico, Luca, 1476-1558

Subject

• Mathematics, Greek -- Early works to 1800
• Circle-squaring -- Early works to 1800
• Geometry -- Early works to 1800
• Pi -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

lat

Summary

First printed Latin texts of Archimedes.

Cataloging source

DLM

Citation location within source

• volume 2, page 72
• volume 1, pages 40, 220
• 1388
• no. 72
• volume 7, page 105

Citation source

• 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

Index

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