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Libro Primo. Dell’ vso delle Virgole numeratrici in genere.”F42, blank. F51–K41, pp. 97–159, “Della Raddologia Libro Secondo. Dell’vso delle Virgole numeratrici nelle cose Geometriche, & Mecaniche, con l’aiuto di alcune Tauole.”K42, blank.K51–N32, pp. 161–210, “Prontvario Ispeditissimo Della Molteplicatione,” the “Proemio” occupying the first 2 pages. N41–Q81, pp. 211–269, “Arimmetica Locale, Che nel Piano dello Scacchiere si esercita.”, the “Prefatione” occupying the first 2 pages.On Q82, “Il Fine di tutta l’Opera. In Verona, Appresso Angelo Tamo, 1623. Con licenza de’ Superiori.”
Signatures. † and A to Q in eights = 136 leaves + 7 diagrams interleaved and included in paging = 143 leaves.
Paging. 16 + 269 numbered + 1 = 286 pages.
There are 7 diagrams on interleaved and folded sheets, each of which counts as two pages; the sides containing the diagrams are numbered as pages 25, 36, 49, 63, 169, 179, and 233.
Errors in Paging. P. 75 not numbered, and pp. 251, 266, and 267 numbered in error 152, 264, and 165.
New Dedication and Complimentary Verses are substituted for those in the edition of 1617, and there are numerous notes throughout the work by the Translator, as well as additions and alterations. One of these may be mentioned, At the end of the work Napier adds these words, “Atque hic finem Arithmetic Locali imponimus. DEO soli laus omnis & honor tribuatur. FINIS.”, but his Italian translator makes the champion of Protestantism say, “Con che a questa nostra ARIMMETICA LOCALE poniamo fine, a DIO, & alla Beatissima Vergine MARIA tutta la gloria, & l’honore attribuendo. Amen.”
Of the four folding diagrams in the edition of 1617, the two facing pages, 101 and 130, are represented by the diagrams at pages 179 and 233, but the other two are not given in this edition.
Libraries. Un. Ed.; Brit. Mus. Lon.; Un. Col. Lon.; Trin. Col. Camb. ; Nat. Paris;
3. Editions in Dutch.
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