Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus's \textit{On the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon}

DOI10.1007/S00407-022-00294-7MaRDI QIDQ2678710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Argante Ciocci

Publication date 24 January 2023

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-022-00294-7

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

Review text

This is a meticulous and definitive study, using a philological approach to geometric diagrams, on the sources used by Federico Commandino in his 1572 Latin translation of Aristarchus' \textit{De magnitudinis et distantiis solis et lunae}, shedding ``light on the interaction between mathematical skills and the drawing of geometric diagrams.

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• What We Can Learn from a Diagram: The Case of Aristarchus's On The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
• Marginalia to an edition of \textit{Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum}: Observations and notes for the publication of a scientific text and its figures
• Federico Commandino and Archimedes's \textit{Spirals}
• Federico Commandino. Editor of Leonardo Pisano's \textit{Practica geometriae}
• The Golden Inheritance of Renaissance
• Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius's \textit{Conics} (1566)
• The problem of Apollonius in the Urbino School

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