Mathematical Treasure: Commandino’s Archimedes

Frederico Commandino (1509-1575) was an Italian mathematician and humanist. He produced some of the first European translations and commentaries on the works of classical Greek mathematicians. His Complete Works of Archimedes appeared in 1558.

On pages 18-19, Archimedes discussed the quadrature of the parabola.

This material is obtained through the courtesy of the Peabody Library of Johns Hopkins University.

See images of ten additional pages of this text from the copy held by the Boston College Library.

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