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Aritmetica

Borghi, Piero, d. ca. 1494, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, printer · Venice : Erhard Ratdolt · 7 pictures

Aritmetica by Piero Borghi, printed in Venice by Erhard Ratdolt in the late fifteenth century as an incunabulum, a teaching arithmetic for merchants and students. The pictures are woodcut diagrams of arcs linking numbers and a decorated initial letter above dense black-letter Italian text, with the layout suggesting how early printers combined instructional figures with type.

Incunabula · Arithmetic

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