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Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (2023)

Ciocci, Argante (Author)

Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Volume: 77
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-23
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1007/s00407-022-00294-7

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-022-00294-7

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Drawing; designing Mathematics Philology Translations Astronomy 16th century Aristarchus, of Samos Commandino, Federico

Aristarchus’s De magnitudinis et distantiis solis et lunae was translated into Latin and printed by Federico Commandino in 1572. All subsequent editions of Aristarchus’ treatise, published by John Wallis (1688), Fortia d’ Urban (1823) and Thomas Heath (1913), followed Commandino’s work. In this article, through a philological approach to the geometric diagrams, I tracked down one of the Greek sources used by Commandino for preparing his Latin version. Commandino pays particular attention to drawing figures. This article sheds light on the interaction between mathematical skills and the drawing of geometric diagrams implemented in his Latin edition of Aristarchus’ book.

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