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Pomodoro Giovanni, La
Geometria prattica,...Cavata da gl'elementi d'Euclide,
e d'altri famosi Autori, Con l'espositione di GIO, SCALA Matenmatico.
Ridotta in cinquanta Tavole, ...
Opera necessaria a Misuratori, ad Architetti, a Geografi, a Cosmografi, a Bombadieri, a Ingegneri, a
Soldati, & a Capitani d'Eserciti.
Gravierter Titel, 51 ganzseitige Kupfer,
Pergamenteinband, neu eingebunden mit neuen Vorsatzblättern, Folio, Rome, Matteo Gregorio Rossi,
1667 Riccardi I, 301, Cockle 944.
Engraved title
within a scrollwork border containing the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
(1571-1621), the nephew of Pope Clement VIII and his state secretary. Including 51 full-page engraved
plates, 7 by Giovanni Scali.
First edition,
first issue of this rare, beautifully illustrated treatise on Euclidian geometry and its practical
applications. The author endeavored to provide the principles of Euclid's geometry to cartography,
architecture, construction, surveying, fortification, and other military and civil applications; the
exquisite illustrations show instruments, early methods of leveling, and surveying scenes, many that
include figures in gentlemanly or military costumes -- or nude. Scali's plates illustrate use of the
compass as well as various architectural projects, including the constructions of columns and arches.
Pomodoro (fl.
16th cent.), a Venetian mathematician and engineer, died while the book was still in manuscript form
and had only forty-four plates. The explanatory text was added by Scala, a military engineer and
architect, who also added seven more plates.
This popular work was
reprinted many times over the following two centuries.
Mortimer, Harvard
Italian Sixteenth-Century Books, II, 394; Cockle, 944 (later ed.); Riccardi, I, p. 300; Smith, History
of Mathematics , p. 358; Thomas-Stanford, XXXVII
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