Theodosii Sphaericorum Elementorum Libri Iii Ex Traditione Maurolyci Messanensis Mathematici

by Francesco Maurolico

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First edition

Messina: Pietro Spira, 1558. First edition, ‘excessively rare’ Sotheran , of Maurolico’s Latin translations ofworks on ‘sphaerics’ by four ancient Greek writers, Autolycus, Menelaus, Euclidand Theodosius, those of the first two authors constituting the first printededitions. Maurolico, one of the most original mathematicians of the 16th century,appended his own original propositions on sphaerics, probably

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