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Elementorum geometricorum lib. XV. Basel: Johannes Hervagius, 1537.
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EUCLIDES (fl. c.300 B.C.E.)
Elementorum geometricorum lib. XV. Basel: Johannes Hervagius, 1537.
First Latin edition of the Elements published by Hervagius, joined for the first time in print by his only work on mechanics, De levi et ponderosa, not hitherto known in any Greek manuscript. ‘According to Arabic sources, he wrote a Book on the Heavy and Light, and when Hervagius was about to publish his 1537 edition there was brought to him a mutilated fragment. … it is the most precise exposition that we possess of the Aristotelian dynamics of freely moving bodies’ (DSB IV, p.431). The edition also contains several of Euclid's smaller tracts on spherical geometry (Phaenomena), optics (Perspectiva), geometrical exercises (Data), which had joined previous editions, and commentaries of both Campanus and Zamberti. This copy is complete with the preface by Melanchthon often censored in other copies, and has clearly been in the hands of an Arabic speaker in France soon after printing. Hervagius was responsible for publishing the Greek editio princeps in 1533. Adams E-974; Thomas-Stanford 9.
Folio (305 x 196mm). Latin text with Greek letters used for designating points on geometric diagrams, printer’s device on title and final verso, ornamental woodcut capitals and diagrams (blank corner of m5 torn away, tiny marginal hole in o5, occasional insignificant spotting and browning). Contemporary Parisian calf, panelled in blind with gilt fleur-de-lys at corners and enclosing gilt fleurion centrepiece, spine with raised bands with small rosettes in compratments (upper joint and head- and foot of lower joint repaired, corners repaired). Provenance: notes in Arabic and Latin on title and last leaf ('Euclid the Philosopher... there is no God but God', 'The book of Euclid the philospher on geometry in the Latin language... There is no God but God Amen,' and ' In the city of Paris centre of the peoples of the earth,' etc.) – ink underlinings and marginalia in Greek to preface – Nicolas Marchant (ink inscriptions on title and front free endpaper, one dated 1632) – Claude Simone (ownership inscriptions on title in Latin and Greek) – various pen trials and scoring of front free endpaper into geometric circles.
Elementorum geometricorum lib. XV. Basel: Johannes Hervagius, 1537.
First Latin edition of the Elements published by Hervagius, joined for the first time in print by his only work on mechanics, De levi et ponderosa, not hitherto known in any Greek manuscript. ‘According to Arabic sources, he wrote a Book on the Heavy and Light, and when Hervagius was about to publish his 1537 edition there was brought to him a mutilated fragment. … it is the most precise exposition that we possess of the Aristotelian dynamics of freely moving bodies’ (DSB IV, p.431). The edition also contains several of Euclid's smaller tracts on spherical geometry (Phaenomena), optics (Perspectiva), geometrical exercises (Data), which had joined previous editions, and commentaries of both Campanus and Zamberti. This copy is complete with the preface by Melanchthon often censored in other copies, and has clearly been in the hands of an Arabic speaker in France soon after printing. Hervagius was responsible for publishing the Greek editio princeps in 1533. Adams E-974; Thomas-Stanford 9.
Folio (305 x 196mm). Latin text with Greek letters used for designating points on geometric diagrams, printer’s device on title and final verso, ornamental woodcut capitals and diagrams (blank corner of m5 torn away, tiny marginal hole in o5, occasional insignificant spotting and browning). Contemporary Parisian calf, panelled in blind with gilt fleur-de-lys at corners and enclosing gilt fleurion centrepiece, spine with raised bands with small rosettes in compratments (upper joint and head- and foot of lower joint repaired, corners repaired). Provenance: notes in Arabic and Latin on title and last leaf ('Euclid the Philosopher... there is no God but God', 'The book of Euclid the philospher on geometry in the Latin language... There is no God but God Amen,' and ' In the city of Paris centre of the peoples of the earth,' etc.) – ink underlinings and marginalia in Greek to preface – Nicolas Marchant (ink inscriptions on title and front free endpaper, one dated 1632) – Claude Simone (ownership inscriptions on title in Latin and Greek) – various pen trials and scoring of front free endpaper into geometric circles.
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