Federico Commandino (about 1506 to 1575) was an Italian humanist, physician and mathematician from Urbino who made the works of the ancient Greek mathematicians available in Latin to Renaissance readers. After studying at Padua and taking a medical degree at Ferrara, he served as physician and tutor to the Duke of Urbino and spent years under the patronage of Cardinal Farnese. He published annotated editions of Archimedes, Ptolemy, Euclid, Aristarchus, Pappus, Apollonius and Heron, and an original treatise on centres of gravity in the Archimedean tradition in 1565. His 1572 Latin Euclid was widely used, and his pupils included Guidobaldo del Monte. Sources differ on his birth year, with MacTutor giving 1506 and other references 1509.
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Source Federico Commandino (MacTutor)SummaryQuote, Summary
Frederico Commandino was an Italian mathematician who published important translations of works of the Ancient Greek mathematicians.
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He married but his wife died after giving birth to two daughters and a son.
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Frederico Commandino was an Italian mathematician who published important translations of works of the Ancient Greek mathematicians.
In Branch: Geometry, Biography, Euclid translation
However the son of the Duke requested that Commandino prepare a Latin translation of Euclid 's Elements and he set to work enthusiastically on this major task.
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Federico Commandino (1509-5 September 1575)
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The proposition known as Commandino's theorem first appears in his work on centers of gravity.
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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 them in a 3:1 ratio.
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