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    Federico Commandino (1509 – 5 September 1575) was an Italian humanist and mathematician. Born in Urbino, he studied at Padua and then at Ferrara, where...
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    Commandino's theorem, named after Federico Commandino (1509–1575), states that the four medians of a tetrahedron are concurrent at a point S, which divides...
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    in an Arabic manuscript), and on Ptolemy's Ἁρμονικά (Harmonika). Federico Commandino translated the Collection of Pappus into Latin in 1588. The German...
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  • student) Thomas Clausen (technical assistant) Sir James Cockle (judge) Federico Commandino (medical doctor) William Crabtree (merchant) Nathan Daboll (cooper)...
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  • translation by Giorgio Valla, and subsequently by Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Guidobaldo del Monte, Adriaan van Roomen, Florence Rivault, Francesco...
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    Early Modern periods, work by Guido Ubaldi, Francesco Maurolico, Federico Commandino, Evangelista Torricelli, Simon Stevin, Luca Valerio, Jean-Charles...
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    worked and learnt from other continental mathematicians, such as Federico Commandino in Italy. He returned to England with a major collection of mathematical...
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    mathematics, mechanics, astronomy and optics. He studied mathematics under Federico Commandino during this period and became one of his most staunch disciples....
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    Constantinople, from 1546 to 1550 and 1554?-1565. Farnese was patron to Federico Commandino, an important translator of ancient Greek mathematical works. Farnese's...
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    Variar writes the Kriyakramakari, 1565 - Federico Commandino publishes De centro Gravitati, 1588 - Commandino's translation of Pappus' Collectio gets published...
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