Year/Century: 18th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Illustrated
Binding: Vellum
Description: Geometry: Euclid. The earliest translation of Euclid into a common language during the early modern era was Niccolo Tartaglia's translation of Euclide megarense, acutissimo philosopho, solitary introduttore delle scientie mathematiche, Venice, Giovanni Bariletti, 1569. Title [A1] and A2-B5 & B8 with paper restoration at fore-edge; 2Q1-8 defective at lower fore-edge corner; and/or paper restoration damp-staining throughout nineteenth-century half vellum; spine with morocco label, rubbed; woodcut printer's device to title; geometric woodcut diagrams; small manuscript ink notation to title. Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, who lived from 1499/1500 to 1557, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, topographical surveyor, and bookkeeper who worked for the Republic of Venice at that time. He designed fortifications. He wrote a number of publications, including an influential collection of mathematics and the first Italian translations of Euclid and Archimedes. In his Nova Scientia (A New Science, 1537), Tartaglia was the first to apply mathematics to the study of bullet routes, or ballistics; Galileo's research on falling bodies eventually both partially supported and replaced his findings. In addition, he wrote a book about rescuing sunken ships.
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