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Andalò di Negro’s De compositione astrolabii: a critical edition with English translation and notes

In this article, we publish the critical edition of Andalo di Negro’s De compositione astrolabii, with English translation and commentary. The mathematician and astronomer Andalo di Negro (Genoa ca. 1260–Naples… Click to show full abstract

In this article, we publish the critical edition of Andalo di Negro’s De compositione astrolabii, with English translation and commentary. The mathematician and astronomer Andalo di Negro (Genoa ca. 1260–Naples 1334) presumably redacted this treatise on the astrolabe in the 1330s, while residing at the court of King Robert of Naples. The present edition has three purposes: first, to make available a text missing from the previous compilations of works by Andalo di Negro (ed. Bonus Opus preclarissimum astrolabij compositum a domino Andalo de nigro genuensi foeliciter incipit…Explicit tractatus astrolabij excellentissimi mathematici Andalonis genuensis, emendatus per celeberrimum et doctissimum astronomum magistrum Petrum Bonum Avogarium in foelici gymnasio ferrariensi. [Ferrara]: magister Johannes Picardus, 1475; Bertolotto II Trattato sull’Astrolabio di Andalo di Negro, riprodotto dall’edizione ferrarese del 1475, con prefazione del socio G. Bertolotto. Atti della societa ligure di storia patria 25, 51–141, 1892; Fornaciari and Faracovi Trattato sull’astrolabio di Andalo di Negro, a cura di P.E. Fornaciari e O.P. Faracovi. Pubblicazione del Comune di Livorno in occasione della “Primavera della Scienza a Livorno” (febbraio-maggio 2005). Ospedaletto: Pacini editore, 2005); second, to revise a privately circulated edition of the text (Cesari L’astrolabio di Andalo di Negro, Parte I, edizione critica. Milano: s.n., 1984a; Practica Astrolabii di Andalo di Negro, Parte I. Edizione critica. Bergamo: Istituto Universitario di Bergamo, 1984b); and third, to help disseminating one of the rare Latin texts presenting the principles of the stereographic projection which underlie the construction of the astrolabe.

Keywords: critical edition; edition; andalo negro; negro compositione

Journal Title: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Year Published: 2019

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