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John B. Little is the translator.
This is a Latin to English translation of Geometria Practica by Chrisopher Clavius, S.J. (1538-1612), the preeminent Jesuit mathematician and mathematical astronomer of his time. The first edition of Geometria Practica appeared in 1604. This translation is of the second edition from 1606, produced by the printshop of Johann Albin in Mainz.
In preparing this translation we have made use of the electronic version of the 1606 edition of the Geometria Practica maintained by the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek. In particular, all of the figures have been copied from the scanned images here. The typesetting was done with the LaTeX system. In an attempt to duplicate the organization of the original book as much as possible, the marginal references and labels as in Clavius's original have been included. References in the form "Book X, Prop. Y" are references to Clavius's own edition of Euclid's Elements. This was very influential and a standard text in Jesuit schools all over the world for much of the 17th century. The text has been annotated to provide some of the history behind this text, explain Clavius's sources, identify other mathematicians that Clavius references, etc.
ISBN
9798985447002
Publication Date
11-18-2021
Publisher
College of the Holy Cross
City
Worcester, Massachusetts
Keywords
Geometry -- Early works to 1800; translations; Jesuit scientists; Jesuits
Disciplines
Geometry and Topology
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Repository Citation
Clavius, Christopher S.J. and Little, John B., "Practical Geometry" (2021). Holy Cross Bookshelf. 57.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/hc_books/57
Comments
Corrected version (June, 2022)