Theodosii sphaericorum elementorum libri III ex traditione Maurolyci, Messanensis Mathematici. Menelai sphaericorum lib III. Ex traditione ejusdem. Maurolyci sphaericorum lib II. Autolyci de sphaera, quae movetur Liber. Theodosii de habitationibus. Euclidis phaenomena. Brevissime demonstrata. Demonstratio et praxis, trium tabellarum scilicet Sinus recti, Foecundae et Beneficae ad Sphaeralia triangula pertinentium. Compendium mathematicae mira brevitate ex clarissimis Authoribus. Maurolyci de Sphaera sermo.
Messina: Pietro Spira, August 1558. First edition, ‘excessively rare’ (Sotheran), of this collection of works on ‘spherics’, the geometrical and trigonometrical techniques necessary for the description of the motion of the celestial bodies, including Maurolico’s Latin translations of works by four ancient Greek writers, Autolycus, Menelaus, Euclid and Theodosius, those..... More
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