Hero of Alexandria — Federico Commandino (trans.) | Commandino..., Urbino, 1575, first edition

Hero of Alexandria — Federico Commandino (trans.)

Heronis Alexandrini spiritalium liber...A Federico Commandino...ex Graeco nuper in Latinum conuersus. Valerio Spacciuoli, ed. Urbino: Domenico Frisolino, 1575

First edition of the Greek author's Pneumatics, translated by the esteemed Federico Commandino.

Commandino, the Italian humanist and mathematician, was responsible for several key translations of mathematical works, including those by Archimedes, Euclid, Ptolemy, and Hero of Alexandria.

Small 4to (194 x 140 mm). Two large historiated woodcut initials, numerous in-text diagrammatic woodcuts of apparatuses and experiments; primarily faint dampstaining, scattered spotting and browning. Later three-quarter vellum and drab paper-covered boards, edges speckled red.

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USTC 835651; Edit16 CNCE 22643