Title page of Federico Commandino’s Italian translation of Euclid’s Elements
1575
- Title
- Title page of Federico Commandino’s Italian translation of Euclid’s Elements
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Rare Book Photographs
- Identifier
- RB-E1575-1
- Dates
- 1575
- Extents
- 1 photographs
- Abstract
- 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.