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Libro del modo di dividere le svperficie

Geometry, Geometry--Early works to 1800, Mathematics, Arab, QA33 .M966 1570

attribvito a'Machometo Bagdedino. Mandato in luce la prima volta da m. Giovanni Dee da Londra, e da M. Federico Commandino da Vrbino. Con vn breue...
Show moreattribvito a'Machometo Bagdedino. Mandato in luce la prima volta da m. Giovanni Dee da Londra, e da M. Federico Commandino da Vrbino. Con vn breue trattato intorno all stessa materia del medesimo M. Federico. Tradotti di latino in volgare da Fuluio Viani de'Malatesti da Montefiore academico vrbinate. E novamente dati in luce.
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Signatures: A-M¿́þ(A unnumbered; A[¿́¿ lacking; D¿́¿and M[¿́¿ irregularly numbered C¿́¿and H respectively)
Translated by Dee from an Arabic manuscript which he believed was a version of Euclid's lost work De superficierum divisionibus. Cf. prefatory letter from Dee to Commandino; Cantor's Vorlesungen ©ơber Geschichte der Math., v. 1, p. 287.
An earlier edition published in Bologna, 1565, is cited in Haym's Bibliotheca italiana, 1803, v. 4, p. 87.
Microfilm copy, made in 1962 of the original in Vatican. Biblioteca vaticana. Positive.
Negative in Vatican. Biblioteca vaticana.
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