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EUCLID [i.e., CLEONIDES]. Rudimenta musices, Greek, with Latin translation by Johannes Pena. Paris: Andr Wechel, 1557. 4o (219 x 163 mm). Bound with three other works in contemporary limp vellum, spine reinforced with blue paper in the 18th century (lacking two pairs of ties, some worming and soiling). Provenance: Lyons, Jesuit College de la Trinit, donated by Archbishop Camille de Neufville in 1693 (printed label on front pastedown); a few marginal annotations in the second work. FIRST EDITION of the Introduction to Harmony, one of two musical treatises traditionally attributed to Euclid. "It is now universally accepted that the Introduction to Harmony is the work of Cleonides, the pupil of Aristoxenus..." (DSB). Adams E-1023.
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EUCLID (fl. ca. 300 B.C). Optica & catoptrica, Greek with Latin translation by J. Pena. Paris: Andr Wechel, 1557. 2 volumes, 4o. Woodcut diagrams. First edition in Greek, ?first separate edition. An edition of the Catoptrica was published in Strassburg in 1557; the priority of the two editions is unknown. Euclid's Optica was the first Greek work on perspective. The Catoptrica, a treatise on mirrors, was attributed by Proclus to Euclid but is a later compilation. Latin translations of both works appeared previously in Georgius Valla's massive compendium De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus (Venice: Aldus, 1501). Adams E-1020.
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HAMELLIUS, Paschasius. Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis denuo correcta, et figuris illustrata. Paris: Gilles Gourbin, 1556. Woodcut diagrams. (Small light dampstain.) First Latin edition. Adams H-27.
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THEODOSIUS Tripolita. Sphaericorum. Paris: A. Wechel, 1558. Woodcut diagrams in text. FIRST EDITION IN GREEK of the Sphaerics, a textbook on the geometry of the sphere, the principal surviving work by Theodosius of Bithynia. Adams T-548.
An interesting 16th-century scientific Sammelband. Printers' woodcut devices in all works, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some light foxing.)
[Bound with:
EUCLID (fl. ca. 300 B.C). Optica & catoptrica, Greek with Latin translation by J. Pena. Paris: Andr Wechel, 1557. 2 volumes, 4
[Bound with:]
HAMELLIUS, Paschasius. Perspectiva tribus libris succinctis denuo correcta, et figuris illustrata. Paris: Gilles Gourbin, 1556. Woodcut diagrams. (Small light dampstain.) First Latin edition. Adams H-27.
[Bound with:]
THEODOSIUS Tripolita. Sphaericorum. Paris: A. Wechel, 1558. Woodcut diagrams in text. FIRST EDITION IN GREEK of the Sphaerics, a textbook on the geometry of the sphere, the principal surviving work by Theodosius of Bithynia. Adams T-548.
An interesting 16th-century scientific Sammelband. Printers' woodcut devices in all works, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some light foxing.)