. Monuments of early printing in Germany, the Low Countries, Italy, France and England, 1460-1500 . No. 66. Euclid. Venice. 148^2. Interest, being the Earliest Printed Work in whieh continuousGeometrical Figures occur in anj^ Quantity and printed with suchCare and Ingenuity. Many of the Figures are composed fromlines and rules, but a very large number are delicate woodengravings. The Enormous Labour attending such a task is dweltupon at length by Ratdolt in his Scholarly Dedication to the DogeJohn Mocenico, professing his wonder that amid the great (|uantityof Old and New Books that were daily
. Monuments of early printing in Germany, the Low Countries, Italy, France and England, 1460-1500 . No. 66. Euclid. Venice. 148^2. Interest, being the Earliest Printed Work in whieh continuousGeometrical Figures occur in anj^ Quantity and printed with suchCare and Ingenuity. Many of the Figures are composed fromlines and rules, but a very large number are delicate woodengravings. The Enormous Labour attending such a task is dweltupon at length by Ratdolt in his Scholarly Dedication to the DogeJohn Mocenico, professing his wonder that amid the great (|uantityof Old and New Books that were daily being j)ubhshed in the Dogesfortunate and prepotent City so little had been done for theStudy of Mathematics, but supposes thai it arose from the diflicullyof printing the necessary Diagrams with the Text. Ratdolt printed in Venice from 1470 to 14<S() and in Augsbourgfrom 1486 to and during his Forly Seai-s CarcHM- seems to havebeen one of the most Imhislrious ol all the Farb FrinlcM-s. THE PERFECT CONDITION OF THE XOLIME ITSELFAND THE MAGNIFICENT BINDING, WHK H CONTAINSIT, RENDER IT
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