THE FIRST SEPARATELY ISSUED ARCHIMEDEAN TEXTS
ARCHIMEDES / BOETHIUS / CAMPANO DA NOVARA / GAURICO, Luca, ed. Tetragonismus id est circuli quadratura per Căpanu, Archimede Syracusanu atqz boetium mathematicae perspicacissimos adinuenta. Venice Ioan. Bapti. Sessa 1503
First Latin edition of De Mensura Circuli and De Quadratura Parabolae, containing Archimedes’ application of the method of exhaustion (the early form of integration) and the earliest theoretical calculation of pi; apart from Valla’s excerpts of 1501, the first printed Latin texts of Archimedes (Rose, p. 50).
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