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CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS (C.100-C.170)
Liber de Analemmate. Edited and with commentary by Federico Commandino. - Federico COMMANDINO (1509-1575). Liber De Horologiorum Descriptione. Rome: Paulus Manutius, 1562. 4° (206 x 150mm). Greek and Roman types, initial spaces with guide-letter. Woodcut dolphin and anchor device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams. (Occasional light spotting, faint dampstain at end.) Early flexible vellum (ties lacking). Provenance: Helmut N. Friedlaender (booklabel; his sale Christie's East, 24 April 2001, lot 245).
FIRST EDITION. Liber de Analemmate outlines a method for finding angles used in the construction of sundials and is an 'important demonstration that Greek mathematics consisted of more than "classical" geometry' (DSB XI, p. 198). It was edited by the noted mathematician Commandino, who appended his own work on the calibration of sundials in order to give further practical application of Ptolemy's method. Only a few fragments of the Analemma survive as a palimpsest; Commandino worked from a translation from Arabic into Latin (Sarton I, 277). Adams P-2216; Ahmanson-Murphy (2001) 681; Hoffmann III, 322; Renouard 187:13; Riccardi I, 360.
Liber de Analemmate. Edited and with commentary by Federico Commandino. - Federico COMMANDINO (1509-1575). Liber De Horologiorum Descriptione. Rome: Paulus Manutius, 1562. 4° (206 x 150mm). Greek and Roman types, initial spaces with guide-letter. Woodcut dolphin and anchor device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams. (Occasional light spotting, faint dampstain at end.) Early flexible vellum (ties lacking). Provenance: Helmut N. Friedlaender (booklabel; his sale Christie's East, 24 April 2001, lot 245).
FIRST EDITION. Liber de Analemmate outlines a method for finding angles used in the construction of sundials and is an 'important demonstration that Greek mathematics consisted of more than "classical" geometry' (DSB XI, p. 198). It was edited by the noted mathematician Commandino, who appended his own work on the calibration of sundials in order to give further practical application of Ptolemy's method. Only a few fragments of the Analemma survive as a palimpsest; Commandino worked from a translation from Arabic into Latin (Sarton I, 277). Adams P-2216; Ahmanson-Murphy (2001) 681; Hoffmann III, 322; Renouard 187:13; Riccardi I, 360.
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