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The ''Treviso Arithmetic'', or ''Arte dell'Abbaco'', is an anonymous textbook in commercial arithmetic written in vernacular Venetian and published in Treviso, Italy in 1478. The author explains his reason for writing this textbook:〔David Eugene Smith "The First Printed Arithmetic (Treviso, 1478)," ''Isis'', 6 (1924): 311–331, at p. 314〕 The ''Treviso Arithmetic'' is the earliest known printed mathematics book in the West, and one of the first printed European textbooks dealing with a science. ==The ''Arithmetic'' as an early printed book== There appears to have been only one edition of the work. David Eugene Smith translated parts of the'' Treviso Arithmetic'' for educational purposes in 1907. Frank J. Swetz translated the complete work using Smith's notes in 1987 in his ''Capitalism & Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century''. Swetz used a copy of the Treviso housed in the Manuscript Library at Columbia University. The volume found its way to this collection via a curious route. Maffeo Pinelli (1785), an Italian bibliophile, is the first known owner. After his death his library was purchased by a London book dealer and sold at auction on February 6, 1790. The book was obtained for ''three shillings'' by Mr. Wodhull.〔Swetz, Frank, J. 1987. ''Capitalism and Arithmetic''. La Salle: Open Court. 〕 About 100 years later the Arithmetic appeared in the library of Brayton Ives, a New York lawyer. When Ives sold the collection of books at auction, George Arthur Plimpton, a New York publisher, acquired the Treviso and made it an acquisition to his extensive collection of early scientific texts. Plimpton donated his library to Columbia University in 1936.〔Swetz, 34〕 Original copies of the ''Treviso Arithmetic'' are extremely rare. There are 123 pages of text with 32 lines of print to a page. The pages are unnumbered, untrimmed and have wide margins. Some of the margins contain written notes. The size of the book is 14.5 cm by 20.6 cm. The book included information taken from the 1202 Liber Abaci, such as lattice multiplication. George G. Joseph, "Crest of the Peacock' suggests that Napier read this book to create Napier's bones, or Napier's rods. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Treviso Arithmetic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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