2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Browsing in a Renaissance Philologist’s Toolbox: Archimedes’ Rule
verfasst von : Nadia Ambrosetti
Erschienen in: The Genius of Archimedes -- 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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A letter preserved in a manuscript of the 16
th
century belonged to Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, shows the high esteem bestowed on Archimedes at that time. An anonymous philologist was working on the critical edition of Pliny the Elder’s
Naturalis Historia
and asked a mathematician for help in amending a doubtful
lectio
of a passage in the 2
nd
book. The philologist’s interpretation is discussed and rejected by the mathematician thanks to the use of Archimedes’ rule for the approximation of
pi
.