ARCHIMEDES (ca. 287-212 BC). Opera . Translated by William of Moerbeke (ca. 1215-1286), edited by Nicolò Tartaglia (ca. 1506-1557). Venice: Venturino Ruffinelli, 1543. 4° (210 x 152mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut diagrams in text, roman (text) and italic (commentary) type. (Some faint staining, bifolia C1.2 and C3.4 reversed in binding.) Vellum wrappers (stained, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION of "an extremely important work... which opened the Archimedean revival of the 16th century" ( Bib. Mechanica ). The only Archimedean writings to have been published prior to this edition were extracts in Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus (1501) and the Tetragonismus (1503); it was followed the next year by an enlarged edition of the Opera in Greek and Latin. Tartaglia, a noted mathematician, was criticised for implying that the translation was his own, although he never made the claim explicitly, but he deserves credit for editing a corrected text and overseeing accurate diagrams. It is dedicated to Richard Wentworth son of Thomas Wentworth and student of Tartaglia. Adams A-1530; Roberts and Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica , pp.314-315; Stillwell Awakening of Science II, 141.
ARCHIMEDES (ca. 287-212 BC). Opera . Translated by William of Moerbeke (ca. 1215-1286), edited by Nicolò Tartaglia (ca. 1506-1557). Venice: Venturino Ruffinelli, 1543. 4° (210 x 152mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut diagrams in text, roman (text) and italic (commentary) type. (Some faint staining, bifolia C1.2 and C3.4 reversed in binding.) Vellum wrappers (stained, new endpapers). FIRST EDITION of "an extremely important work... which opened the Archimedean revival of the 16th century" ( Bib. Mechanica ). The only Archimedean writings to have been published prior to this edition were extracts in Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus (1501) and the Tetragonismus (1503); it was followed the next year by an enlarged edition of the Opera in Greek and Latin. Tartaglia, a noted mathematician, was criticised for implying that the translation was his own, although he never made the claim explicitly, but he deserves credit for editing a corrected text and overseeing accurate diagrams. It is dedicated to Richard Wentworth son of Thomas Wentworth and student of Tartaglia. Adams A-1530; Roberts and Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica , pp.314-315; Stillwell Awakening of Science II, 141.
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