Federico Commandino

Federico Commandino (1509 - september 5 1575) was an Italian humanist and mathematician.

Born in Urbino, he studied at Padua and at Ferrara, where he received his doctorate in medicine. He translated the works of ancient mathematicians and was responsible for the publication of the works of Archimedes. He also translated the works of Aristarchus of Samos ("On the masses and distances of the Sun and the Moon"), Pappus of Alexandria ("Mathematical collection"), and Euclid ("Elements"). Among his pupils was Guidobaldo del Monte. Commandino maintained a correspondence with the astronomer Francesco Maurolico. The proposition known as Commandino's theorem first appears in his work on centers of gravity.

References

*cite book|first=Edward |last=Rosen|chapter=Commandino, Federico|title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography, volume II|editor=Gillispie, C.C.|location=New York|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|year=1981|id=ISBN 0-684-16963-0

Bibliography

*"Archimedis De iis quae vehuntur in aqua libri duo/ a Frederico Commandino restituti et commentariis illustrati", Bononiae: Ex officina Alexandri Benacii (1565), 45 p.

External links

* [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CommandinosTheorem.html Commandino's Theorem]
* [http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Biographies/Commandino.html Commandino biography]
* [http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?step=thumb&dir=comma_centr_023_la_1565 Liber de centro gravitatis solidorum 1565] at the [http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de Archimedes Project]