Elementorum

by Euclid, Federico Commandino

$7,800 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“One could argue that it was Commandino's translating activity that made possible the rapid recovery of Western mathematics in the sixteenth century. – Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution RARE HISTORICALLY-IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL MATHEMATICAL TREATISE: THE FIRST COMMANDINO EDITION. Having established himself as a noted scholar, Federico Commandino of Urbino at the behest of

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