First edition of the translation of Commandino, a well-known mathematician and physician.
In 1565 Commandino was visited by the English philosopher, mathematician and astrologer John Dee (1527-1608), who gave him a manuscript translation into Latin of an Arabic work related to the De divisionibus by Euclid. Commandino published this Latin version - De superficiarum divisionibus liber Machometo Bagdedino ascriptus - in Pesaro in 1570, adding his own short treatise to condense and generalize the discussion of this work. Two years later, at the request of Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Commandino translated Euclid's Elements into Latin and published them, together with an extensive commentary, in 1572, again in Pesaro. Then, in 1575, for his compatriots who did not know Latin, Commandino edited an Italian translation of the Elements together with his commentary, which he entrusted to some of his students. Euclid's elements books fifteen is the first book printed in Urbino in the 16th century and the publication is dedicated - like the Latin version of 1572 - to his patron Francesco Maria della Rovere. The volume was printed by Domenico Frisolino, whom Commandino had probably summoned to Urbino for this purpose, Frisolino having founded the first typography in the city in the last months of 1574. The typography was located in the house of Commandino himself, as the colophon attests: "IN URBINO IN THE HOUSE OF FEDERICO COMMANDINO, WITH LICENSE OF SUPERIORS. MDLXXV".



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