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Dedomena. Data. Opus ad veterum geometriae autorum Archimedis, Apollonii, Pappi, Eutocii, caeterorumque non modo lectionem, sed ad Geometricae quoque Analyseos instaurationem plane necessarium, & a multis diu desideratum

Lutetiae Parisiorum
Melchior Mondiere
1625

€1.600 - €3.000

4to, (8), 181, (1) pp, parallel Greek and Latin text, ill. with numerous schematic text-woodcuts. Manuscript ex libris on title-page. Age-toned, small wormholes in a few lvs. Lacking Z4 (last leaf with part of the errata). Contemporary blind tooled calf (with IHS monogram), with decorated spine, gilt gauffered edges

DSB IV, 425: ""The Data, the only other work by Euclid in pure geometry to have survived in Greek, is closely connected with books I-VI of the Elements. It is concerned with the different senses in which things are said to be given (...) Marinus of Naples wrote a commentary on, or rather an introduction to, the Data."" - Schweiger I, 111; Hoffmann II, 41. ""Hardy owed his greatest fame to his knowledge of Arabic and other exotic languages, and in particular, to his edition of Euclid's Data"" (DSB VI, 113)

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