Subject: Re: [HM] Anthrakitis' Book (was: Heron's formula)
From: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis@otenet.gr)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 03:23:13 EST
I quoted:
> A New Old Book in the Gennadius Library
>
> In the summer of 1980 we acquired from a private collection Volume 3 of
> Hodos Mathematikes (the Road to Mathematics) by Methodios Anthrakitis
> and Balanos Vassilopoulos, published in Vienna in 1749.
^^^^^^
Venice (my mistyping)
> Three other Greek libraries are recorded to have one copy each of the
> complete set: the Xeropotamou Monastery in Mt. Athos,
This is not right. Actually, there are copies of the book in the following
three monasteries in Mt. Athos (Holy Mountain):
Vatopediou Monastery, Iviron Monastery, Megistis Lavras Monastery.
(Th. I. Papadopoulos: Greek Bibliography (1466 ci. - 1800). Vol. I.
Athens 1984, p. 204, #2739)
Note that some historians (Vretos, Sathas) mention one more edition of the
book in Venice, 1775, but no copy is known.
(Papadopoulos, op. cit. #2740)
> the Evangelical School of Smyrna (dissolved many years ago) and the
> collection of Athanasios Vernardakis, a book collector (deceased and his
> library dispersed). The British Museum also has a copy of Volume 1.
Antreas
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