Re: [HM] 1554 Tartaglia
Mary J. Henninger-Voss (voss@phoenix.Princeton.edu)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 11:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
Dear Karen DM,
Mike Mahoney passed your e-mail on to me since I am the resident Tartaglia
expert. The 1554 edition usually combines th 1537 Nova Scientia and the
1546 Quesiti et Inventioni. The 1554 edition has some additions
Tartaglia made, though, and I think is the nicer one to actually
posess. There are scads of copies of these things --
they were enormously popular, and John Murdoch (at Harvard) told me that
he picked up editions of Tartaglia in Italy after WWII for $10-$20, so I'm
not suprised that some of them made it over here.
I am not a bibliographer, but I have worked extensively with the
text. If you can get your hands on it (and presumably read Italian), the
best source of Tartagliana is Arnaldo Masotti, Studi su Niccolo Tartaglia
(Brescia, 1962). Please let me know if I can help you otherwise. And may
I ask what your interest in the book is?
Sincerely,
M. Henninger-Voss
Mary J. Henninger-Voss
History Department
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Princeton University
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