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Title page of Federico Commandino's Italian translation of Euclid's Elements

1575

Commandino, described as the most competent mathematician among all Renaissance translators, produced his Italian text from Greek editions. Italian was the first vernacular language into which Euclid was translated.


Photo ID RB-E1575-1

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