Claudii Ptolemaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini Almagestum seu magnae constructionis mathematicae opus plane diuinum / latina donatum lingua ab Georgio Trapezuntio usquequaq. doctissimo. Per Lucam Gauricum Neapolit. diuinae matheseos professorem egregium in alma urbe Veneta orbis regina recognitum. Anno salutis M D XXVIII labente.

  • Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Date:
[Anno Chr[isti] 1528
  • Books

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Almagest. Latin

Publication/Creation

In Vrbe Veneta : ... Calcographica Luceantonii A. Iu[nta officina aere proprio, ac typis excussa ...], [Anno Chr[isti] 1528.

Physical description

6 unnumbered pages, 143 pages, 1 unnumbered leaves : title page in red & black, diagrams, illustrations (woodcuts) ; (folio)

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Notes

First printed edition of the Latin translation from the Greek by George of Trebizond. Cf. Sarton, G. Introd. to hist. of science, v. 1, p. 274. This edition has been observed in at least three states; cf. NUC pre- 1956 NP 0630147 and NP 0630149 (both at Harvard University) and RLIN record for Brown University Library copy
Imprint from colophon on leaf 143 verso
Signatures: A⁶ a-s⁸ (s8 blank)
Errata: leaf 143 verso.
Copy 1 Note: Last (blank?) leaf wanting.

References note

Adams P2214
Grässe VI, p. 498
BM STC Italian, 1465-1600 p. 542
BN v. 143, column 743
Hoffmann, S.F.W. Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesammten Litt. der Griechen (2. Aufl.) III, p. 321
Sarton, G. Introd. to hist. of science I, p. 274

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