PROCLUS, Diadochus (410?-485). In primum Euclidis Elementorum librum . Translated by Francesco Barozzi (1537-1604). Padua: Gratioso Perchacino, 1560. 2 (291 x 200mm). Woodcut device of Hermes and Athena with a phoenix on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Barozzi on title verso, numerous woodcut diagrams, the text of Euclid set in roman type within woodcut cartouches, historiated initials, printer's device at end. Early vellum over thin pasteboard (rebacked). FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of Proclus's important commentary on the first book of Euclid. His work is 'the earliest contribution to the history of mathematics' (DSB). It was translated into Latin by Francesco Barozzi, a humanist, mathematician and astronomer. His translation provides a text substantially more complete and correct than the editio princeps , printed at Basel in 1533, since it is based on superior manuscripts. Barozzi finished the translation at the age of only 22, having already lectured on Sacrobosco's Sphaera at the university of Padua in 1559. He went on to translate the work of Hero and Archimedes and write a Cosmographia , but was condemned as a sorcerer by the Inquisition in 1587 for having caused torrential rainstorms in his native Crete (see DSB 1, p.468). Adams P-2138; Brunet IV, 895; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 403; Riccardi I, 1, 82.
PROCLUS, Diadochus (410?-485). In primum Euclidis Elementorum librum . Translated by Francesco Barozzi (1537-1604). Padua: Gratioso Perchacino, 1560. 2 (291 x 200mm). Woodcut device of Hermes and Athena with a phoenix on title, full-page woodcut portrait of Barozzi on title verso, numerous woodcut diagrams, the text of Euclid set in roman type within woodcut cartouches, historiated initials, printer's device at end. Early vellum over thin pasteboard (rebacked). FIRST EDITION IN LATIN of Proclus's important commentary on the first book of Euclid. His work is 'the earliest contribution to the history of mathematics' (DSB). It was translated into Latin by Francesco Barozzi, a humanist, mathematician and astronomer. His translation provides a text substantially more complete and correct than the editio princeps , printed at Basel in 1533, since it is based on superior manuscripts. Barozzi finished the translation at the age of only 22, having already lectured on Sacrobosco's Sphaera at the university of Padua in 1559. He went on to translate the work of Hero and Archimedes and write a Cosmographia , but was condemned as a sorcerer by the Inquisition in 1587 for having caused torrential rainstorms in his native Crete (see DSB 1, p.468). Adams P-2138; Brunet IV, 895; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 403; Riccardi I, 1, 82.
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