Abstract
New archival evidence from Urbino provides a rare insight into the production and distribution of a mathematical textbook in seventeenth-century Italy.
A substantially expanded version of this paper is forthcoming as ‘The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625)’, in S Kusukawa and I Maclean (eds.), Transmitting knowledge: words, images and instruments in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Warburg, 2006).
Notes
A substantially expanded version of this paper is forthcoming as ‘The production and distribution of Mutio Oddi's Dello squadro (1625)’, in S Kusukawa and I Maclean (eds.), Transmitting knowledge: words, images and instruments in Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Warburg, 2006).
1Biblioteca Universitaria, Urbino (BUU), Fondo Congregazione della Carità (FCC), Busta 53, Fascicolo 2, f. 21r.
2BUU, FCC, Busta 53, Fasc. 2, f. 22v.
3BUU, FCC, Busta 53, Fasc. 2, f. 26v.
4BUU, FCC, Busta 53, Fasc. 2, f. 23v.
5BUU, FCC, Busta 47, Fasc. 2, f. 21r.
6British Library, 1651/250, flyleaf.