Federico Commandino and the Latin edition of Apollonius's \textit{Conics} (1566)

DOI10.1007/S00407-023-00307-ZMaRDI QIDQ6100770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Argante Ciocci

Publication date 22 June 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-023-00307-z

zbMATH Keywords

Latin translation of Apollonius's \textit{Conics}

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 an extraordinarily learned paper, which, on the one hand establishes -- based on the annotations in Greek made on them, which were identified as being Commandino's by handwriting analysis -- the individual Greek manuscripts used by Federico Commandino for his 1566 Latin translation of Apollonius' \textit{Conics}, which ``includes Eutocius' commentary, some lemmas taken by Pappus (\textit{Collection VII}), and two Books by Serenus, and on the other hand points out the frequent use Commandino made of ``the work of Apollonius to clarify the most difficult passages of Archimedes' books, published in the 1558 edition (\textit{Archimedis opera non nulla}) and the importance of Commandino's translation ``for all the protagonists of the scientific revolution: Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Cavalieri, Pascal, and Huygens.

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