Euclide / Giovanni Tacuino – Euclidis Megarensis Philosophi Platonici Mathematicarum Disciplinarum Ianintoris – 1510

EUCLID – EUCLIDIS MEGARENSIS PHILOSOPHI PLATONICI MATHEMATICARUM DISCIPLINARUM IANITORISVenice, Giovanni Tacuino (Johannes Tacuinus), 26 March 1510.Latin translation and edition by Bartolomeo Zamberti.Folio. Extensively illustrated throughout with woodcut geometrical, mathematical and astronomical diagrams.An important and very early Venetian edition of the mathematical works of Euclid, printed by Giovanni Tacuino in 1510, during the first decades of mathematical printing in Renaissance Venice.The text was edited and translated into Latin by the Venetian humanist and mathematician Bartolomeo Zamberti, whose work was based directly upon the Greek textual tradition. Tacuino had previously published Zamberti's Euclid in 1505; this 1510 edition is closely related to that printing, with part of the earlier setting reused and the later portion reset.The volume contains the Elements, Books I–XV, together with the additional Euclidean works Phaenomena, Optica, Catoptrica and Data, as well as associated ancient commentaries and the Protheoria of Marinus.Of particular interest is the separately signed section containing Euclid's Data (AA–FF), extensively illustrated with geometrical woodcut diagrams and preserved through its concluding FINIS.Throughout the volume are numerous geometrical and mathematical diagrams printed directly alongside the propositions, together with astronomical figures and ornamental/historiated woodcut initials. These illustrations make the volume a particularly attractive example of early sixteenth-century scientific printing.The... lees verder bij Catawiki