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PIETRO CATENA (1501-1576)
Petrus Cathena artium et theologiae doctor, professor publicus artium liberalium ...


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PIETRO CATENA (1501-1576)
Petrus Cathena artium et theologiae doctor, professor publicus artium liberalium in gymnasio patavino, Super Loca Mathematica contenta in Topicis & Elenchis Aristotelis nunc & non antea, in lucem aedita.Venetiis, Apud Cominum de Tridinum Montisserati, 1561


§ Small 4to (200 x 140 ; 16 leaves (A-D1-4). Woodcut on title page, woodcut initials, several schematic illustrations. Later wrappers. Unimportant stains on last 3 leaves, otherwise fine.

First edition. Petrus Catena was an astronomer, philosopher, mathematician, theologian, a catholic priest and public lecturer of Metaphysics and professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, a precursor of the Renaissance scientific revolution, Catena investigated on the relationships between mathematics, logic and philosophy. “The historical importance of C. is due to the fact that he was one of the first, in the XVIth century, to address the problem of the formal and epistemological evaluation of Euclidean mathematics, naturally from the view-point of Aristotelian logic and philosophy, Ref: Giulio Cesare Giacobbe Catena, Pietro In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, ad vocem..