Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus's \textit{On the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon} (Q2678710)
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| English | Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus's \textit{On the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon} |
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Federico Commandino and his Latin edition of Aristarchus's \textit{On the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon} (English)
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24 January 2023
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This is a meticulous and definitive study, using a philological approach to geometric diagrams, on the sources used by Federico Commandino in his 1572 Latin translation of Aristarchus' \textit{De magnitudinis et distantiis solis et lunae}, shedding ``light on the interaction between mathematical skills and the drawing of geometric diagrams.''
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