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First edition of this richly illustrated treatise on applied geometry, structured as a manual for surveyors, geographers, cosmographers, civil and military architects, and "any other virtuous person". The Venetian mathematician Pomodoro had prepared 44 plates before his premature death; Scala took on the task of completing the treatise by adding detailed descriptions and 7 more plates. After the first Italian publication of Euclid's Elements in 1545 in Venice, geometry started to be seen as a powerful tool for measuring reality, and therefore managing and transforming the world. Unlike the numerous purely theoretical treatises of the period, Geometria prattica was aimed at providing methods for solving everyday problems. It "favoured the diffusion of scientific notions and solutions between clients and common people. The good fortune of Pomodoro's treatise is in offering to his contemporaries a work suited to the needs of clients - increasingly numerous and demanding, useful for practical administrative needs, simple in format and smart in contents. Pomodoro's drawings have a peculiar graphical quality, being a smart visual guide for professionals" (Brusaporci, pp. 201-17). The work begins with a presentation of the necessary instruments for drawing and surveying, including different types of compasses, rulers, goniometers, and the "surveyor cross" (a particular measuring tool for surveyors). Pomodoro's plates from II to XXX are dedicated to geometric definitions (i.e. what is a point) and calculations related to all basic shapes; plates from XXXI to XLIV illustrate - by superimposing geometric diagrams on landscapes and architectural plans - how to measure distances and areas in real-life settings, featuring human characters in contemporary civilian and military dress, or nude. Scala's additional plates focus on solids and buildings. Giovanni Pomodoro (d. before 1599), renowned astronomer and land surveyor, was active in the contemporary European cultural context and a well-educated scholar - in his plate XXVIII, he quotes Albrecht Dürer. Giovanni Scala (fl. 1547-1599) was a military engineer from Friuli, author of a treatise on fortifications. From his introduction to the reader, it appears that Scala knew Pomodoro's brother and accepted his request to finish and publish this work. USTC 850265; EDIT 16 CNCE 28377; not in Adams. S. Brusaporci, "Giovanni Pomodoro (XVI Century)" in Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science, 2016. Folio (345 x 237 mm). Engraved title page with scrollwork cartouche and coat of arms of the dedicatee, Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, 51 full-page engraved plates, woodcut ornate initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum over boards. Binding bright and firm with some stains, small hole to front joint and crack to vellum of lower cover, intermittent damp stain to lower margins at gutter, some light browning and spots to contents, crude early repair to lower margin of one leaf, but overall internally clean. A very attractive copy, the plates executed with clear impression.

First 17th-century edition of this important and finely illustrated manual of Euclidean geometry (the geometrical system attributed to Alexandrian Greek mathematician Euclid) and its practical applications for surveyors, architects and others by the military engineer Giovanni Pomodoro. The first edition of the Geometria prattica was published in 1599. The first 44 plates were designed by Pomodoro. Unfortunately he died before 1599 and therefore he could not complete his work. He only left the manuscript of the present work, which then only contained 44 plates. The mathematican Giovanni Scala edited the manuscript and added the last 7 plates. Almost nothing is known about Pomodoro's life, all we know is derived from the text by Scala and by the foreword by Pomodoro's brother Piero Pomodoro in the first edition, which is not present in this copy.This work must have been very useful for land meters, geographers, cosmographers, architects and militaries, not only because it is a theoretical tract on the Euclidean geometry, but also because the text and the plates show the practical implementations of this theory and the geometrical problems that could rise from that. Because of the clear and rich visual instructions on all aspects of practical geometry, perspective, projection, the fall of light and shadows for all kinds of arts and professions and because of the fact that this work contained all that was known on geometry since Euclid, this work gained a high status and was long regarded as one of the standard works in geometry and got many reprints in the 17th and 18th century.With an erased ownership's inscription on the first endleaf. Binding somewhat stained and with some annotations which faded away, but otherwise in very good condition.l Cockle 944; Mortimer 394; this edition not in Honeyman; cf. Riccardi I, pp. 300-301 (1599, first edition). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. With title within engraved architectural border and 51 full-page engraved illustrations, the first 44 (number 1-44) after designs by Pomodoro and the last 7 plates (numbered 1-7) by Scala, colophon with large woodcut printer's device of Andrea Fei. Pages: [57], [1 blank] ll.

Zustand: Good. Folio. 24 x 35 cm. Contemporary limp. vellum. engraved title-page, engraved dedication, 62 engraved plates (4 folding), with an additional leaf containing two engravings of cannons at the end,Provenance: The CottesloeMilitary Library, purchased from Librairie Montgenet, Geneva, 14 October 1938, 30 CHF.References: Cockle 818; USTC 4008197; OCLC, 503796503.