Paris, Claude Morel, 1615
Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata.
First edition of the most influential seventeenth-century edition of Archimedes’ complete works. The work contains the Greek text with a Latin “trot” running alongside and has extensive exegetical notes. It was still regarded as the best edition in 1670 when Sturm made his German translation. “The success of the humanist..... More