| Work 1 | Author standard |
Archimedes | Gerard of Cremona |
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| Title (standard) |
De quadratura circuli |
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| Incipit |
Omnis linea continens circulum addit super triplum diametri ipsius minus septima et plus X partibus LXX unius partium dyametri ... |
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| Publ. descriptions |
Clagett, Osiris, X (1952), 594 |
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| Item no. |
1 |
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| Folio no. |
151v-156r |
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| Rubric |
Incipit Liber Archimenidis de Quadratura circuli |
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| Explicit |
... linea continens circulum addit super triplum dyametri unius septima et plus 10 71 partibus partium dyametri. Et hoc quod volumus probare. |
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| Glosses etc. |
Marginal commentary on 151v, 152v, 153r |
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| Additional copies |
Paris, Bibl. Nat., cod. lat. 11247, 51r-62r |
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| T & K |
TK 998 |
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| Additional information |
According to Clagett, the latter is an expanded version of Archimedes, De mensura circuli, Proposition III |
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| Work 2 | Author standard |
Archimedes | Gerard of Cremona |
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| Title (standard) |
De mensura circuli |
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| Incipit |
Omnis circulus orthogonio triangulo est equalis cuius unum duorum laterum continentium angulum rectum medietate dyametri circuli equatur et alterum ipsorum linee circulum continenti ... |
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| Printed copies |
M. Clagett, Osiris, X (1952), 609-16 |
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| Item no. |
2 |
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| Folio no. |
156r-157v |
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| Explicit |
... Fac ergo quadratum equale triangulo per ultimam secundi. Et sic concludes propositum. |
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| Colophon |
Explicit. Laus deo. Laus deo. Pax visis. Requies eterna defunctis. |
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| Additional copies |
Florence, Bibl. Naz. Centr., MS J. V. 30, 12r-12v; |
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| T & K |
TK 996 |
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| Additional information |
A comparison with the edition by Clagett shows that this is another copy of the Florence version of the translation of Gerard of Cremona. Propos. I is given as the incipit above. Propos. II begins: "Proportio aree omnis circuli ad quadratum dyametri ..."; in lieu of Propos. III, there is another version of Propos. I, beginning: "Circulum quadrare eo quod omnis triangulis orthogonius ... |
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| Work 3 | Author standard |
Nicolaus de Cusa |
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| Title (standard) |
De circuli quadratura |
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| Incipit |
Pater optime quia me nosti a puero veritatem quesivisse que in mathematicis clarius videtur relucere ... |
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| Publ. descriptions |
R. Haubst, Studien zu Nikolaus von Kues and Johannes Wenck aus Handschriften der Vatikanischen Bibliothek (Bd.38, Heft 1, Beiträge zur Gesch. d. Phil. u. Theol., 1955), 16-8; |
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| Additional remarks |
The work is in the hand of Nicolaus Cusanus |
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| Item no. |
3 |
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| Folio no. |
166r-166v |
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| Rubric |
Dialogus inter cardinalem sancti petri episcopum brixinensem et paulum physicum florentinum de circuli quadratura |
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| Explicit |
... ista nota sunt et ideo tibi Nicolao patri optimo gracias ago ....et inquisitores a fatiga magna relevare. |
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| Colophon |
Finit 1457 brixne. |
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| Glosses etc. |
Marginal additions in Nicolaus' hand, wich are lacking in the early printed editions of his works. |
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| Additional information |
A German translation in Nikolaus von Cues, Die mathematischen Schriften, übersetzt von J. Hofman (Heft 11, Schriften des Nikolaus von Cues, 1952), 143-50 |
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