Bartolomeo Zamberti

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Bartolomeo Zamberti , also Zamberto, latinized Zambertus, (* around 1473 in Venice , † after 1543) was an Italian humanist and translator in Venice. The first printed Latin edition of the Elements of Euclid, which was completely translated from Greek, was written by him in 1505 . He was a pupil of Giorgio Valla (Zamberti's funeral oration on him has been handed down) and a lawyer.

Title page of the Euclid edition by Zamberti 1505

According to Zamberti, he worked on the translation for seven years. He not only translated the elements, but also the Optica, Catoptrica, Phaenomena and Data of Euclid. He also corrected errors in the medieval Latin edition of the elements of Campanus of Novara (for example the definitions in Book V), which he violently attacked. But he was primarily a humanist and not a mathematician and therefore did not write his own commentary. The mathematician Luca Pacioli attacked him for his criticism of Campanus and defended the old Euclid editions in his own new edition of Campanus 1509. Nicolo Tartaglia published a translation into Italian in 1543, in which he took into account both the text of Zamberti and Campanus .

Like Campanus, Zamberti used a version with the improvements of Theon of Alexandria in his translation . Zamberti also held Theon to be the actual originator of the evidence in the elements (and ascribed only the arrangement and definitions to Euclid). After the edition in Venice of 1505, an edition appeared in 1510, one in Paris in 1516 (additionally with the version by Campanus), which was reprinted in Basel in 1537 and 1546.

He also wrote the Latin comedy Dolotechne , received in a manuscript from the Bavarian State Library and two incunabula (Venice 1504, Strasbourg 1511).

literature

  • Paul Lawrence Rose Bartolomeo Zamberti's Funeral Oration for the Humanist Encyclopaedist Giorgio Valla , in Cecil H. Clough (Editor) Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance. Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller , Manchester University Press 1976, 299-310
  • Thomas Heath The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements , Dover, Introduction, p. 98
  • Hermann Weissenborn The translations of Euclid by Campano and Zamberti , Halle 1882
  • Robert Goulding Defending Hypatia. Ramus, Savile and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History , Springer Verlag 2010

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of birth according to Jens Hoyrup Measure, Number and Weight , State University of New York Press, 1994, p. 157
  2. ↑ He is mentioned in the Italian Euclid edition of Tartaglia 1543 as still alive
  3. ↑ Printed by Ratdolt in Venice 1482. Campanus translated from Arabic.
  4. ↑ Greek texts without the adaptation by Theon became known only later and the original text was reconstructed by Johan Heiberg in the 19th century
  5. ^ Grazielle Gentilini (editor) Il teatro umanistico veneto: la commedia , Ravenna 1983, with translation
personal data
SURNAME Zamberti, Bartolomeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zambertus; Zamberto, Bartolomeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian humanist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH around 1473
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH after 1543