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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Mathematics

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Vatican Film Library

Euclid

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. graec. 190, 289r

[Euclidis elementorum (recensio Theone antiquior) cum scholiis] by Euclid
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 7880, 7973

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. graec. 190
Algebra Christophori Clavii Bambergensis e Societate Iesv. Avrelianae Allobrogvm by Christoph Clavius
Call Number: MICROFILM 1122.3

Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books ; list 7, no. 43.
Lectura super Sententias. 1350
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 125

Text of several quaestiones on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, and several mathematical and scientific tracts.

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Vat. lat. 1108.
Mathematics-- Early works to 1800
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Commentaries on Euclid

The First Latin Translation of Euclid's Elements Commonly Ascribed to Adelard of Bath by Euclid; H. L. Busard (Editor); Adelard of Bath (Translator)
Call Number: QA31 .E8782 1983
The Commentary of Albertus Magnus on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry by Anthony Lo Bello (Editor)
Call Number: QA31 .A35 2003
The Commentary of Al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry by Anthony Lo Bello (Editor)
Call Number: QA31 .A35513 2003
Gerard of Cremona's Translation of the Commentary of Al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry by Anthony Lo Bello (Editor)
Call Number: QA31 .A35513 2003b
Clavius, une Cle Pour Euclide Au XVIe Siecle by Sabine Rommevaux
Call Number: QA31.E93 R655 2005

Pius Spec Coll Rare Bks

P. Rami Scholarum mathematicarum, libri unus et triginta.
Call Number: QA33 .R27 1569 4to

The Praefatio is a Latin translation of Ramus' Préface sur le proëme des mathémathiques. Books I-III constitute the author's Proemium mathematicum (first published in Paris in 1567). Books IV-V are Ramus' commentary on his own Arithmetices. Books VI-XXXI constitute his commentary on Euclid's Elements--Cf. Ong, W.J. Ramus and Talon inventory, p. 438.

Basel 1569
Works of Peter Ramus

Mathematicians

Archimedes in the Middle Ages by Marshall Clagett
Call Number: QA31 .A6896
Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library by Kenneth S. Guthrie;
Call Number: B243 .G88 1987
Abbo of Fleury and Ramsay: : commentary on the Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine by A. M. Peden (Editor)
Call Number: QA32 .A32 2003
The algebra of Abū Kāmil: Kitāb fī al-Jābr wa'l-muqābala, in a commentary by Mordecai Finzi. by Abū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam.
Call Number: QA32 .A3813
Nicole Oresme
Call Number: QA32 .O6813

Several volumes in University of Wisconsin publications in medieval science
The Earliest arithmetics in English by Robert Steele (Editor)
Call Number: PR1119 .E5 no.118
Essais scientifiques et philosophiques : les articles publiés dans les journaux savants by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Call Number: B2555 .L36 2005
Bibliographie générale des œuvres de Blaise Pascal.
Call Number: B1903 .Z84