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Modern Edition
Nunes,
Pedro,
Obras, Volume I: Tratado da Sphera;
Astronomici introductorii de spaera epitome (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
2002).
Nunes,
Pedro, Obras, Volume II: De Crepusculis,(Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
2003).
Nunes,
Pedro,
Obras, Volume III: De
erratis Orontii Finaei
(Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
2005).
Nunes,
Pedro,
Obras, Volume IV : De
arte atque ratione nauigandi
(Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
2008)
Nunes,
Pedro, In Theoricas Planetarum Georgii
Purbachii Annotationes,
Obras, Volume V (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
2011)
Nunes,
Pedro, Obras, Volume VI
(Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
2010)
(Libro de algebra en arithmetica y
geometria)
Buy @
Gulbenkian Foundation
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Tratado da Sphera, 1537
Nunes' Portuguese translation of
Sacrobosco's
Tractatus de Sphaera, the chapters on the Sun and Moon from Peuerbach's
Theoricae nouae planetarum, and Book I of Ptolemy's Geographia.
Most importantly this book
contains two original works on navigation: Tratado que ho doutor Pêro nunez fez sobre certas duuidas de
nauegação and Tratado (...) em defensam da
carta de marear.
This two works signal the
beginning of mathematical navigation.
See
online:
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (link)
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da
Universidade do Porto (link)
Biblioteca de la Universidade de Sevilla (link)
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De crepusculis,
1542
In this book Pedro Nunes adresses the problem
of the duration of twilights. He explained that this duration
depends of the place of the observer and of the time of the year and, for
the first time, established the mathematical conditions to observe a minimum twilight.
It was also in this work that Nunes presents
the concept of a
nonius scale.
See online:
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal: (link)
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da
Universidade do Porto: (link)
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De erratis Orontii Finaei, 1546
A refutation of
Oronce Finé's (professor at the Collège Royal de Paris) claim to have solved the three
classical mathematical problems (to double a
cube, to trisect an arbitrary angle, and to square a circle).
See
online:
Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla: (link)
Istituto e Museo di Storia della
Scienza: (link)
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Petri
Nonii Salaciensis Opera, 1566
Latin translation of the
Tratado (...) sobre certas duuidas de
nauegação and a much more extended version of the Tratado (...) em defensam da
carta de marear.
The book contains many new results and is
perhaps Nunes' most important publication. Of special interest is the first
presentation of a mathematical theory fr the loxodromic curve.
See
online:
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal:
(link)
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do
Porto: (link)
Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla: (link)
Wolfenbüttel Bibliothek:
(link)
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Libro de Algebra, 1567
Nunes started working in
the manuscript of this book about 30 years before its publication.
The book is divided in
three parts. In the first, Nunes dealt with the resolution of first and
second degree equations with one variable; in the second, dealt with
proportions and algebraic calculus; in the third, again with equations
resolutions, including third degree equations.
See
online:
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de
Lisboa:
(link)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid: (link)
Google Books:
(link)
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De crepusculis,
Second edition (Coimbricae:
Antonius a Marijs, 1571).
See
online:
Biblioteca Fondación San Millán de la Cogolla:
(link)
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De arte atque ratione navigandi, 1573
The first edition of Petri Nonii
Salaciencis Opera came out with many errors. Nunes decided to publish
this improved second edition in Portugal, under a diferent name.
See
online:
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal:
(link)
Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra:
(link)
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do
Porto: (link)
Biblioteca Fondación San Millán de la Cogolla:
(link)
European Cultural Heritage
Online: (link)
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Petri Nonii Salaciensis
Opera,
(Basileae: officina
Henricpetrina, 1592)
A "second" edition of Nunes' Opera, by
the same printer of the first edition. This used folios from the 1566's
edition but followed the internal organization of
De arte atque ratione navigandi.
Nevertheless, the mistakes found in the first edition were not corrected.
See
online:
Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do
Porto: (link)
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Vinet's Sphere with Nunes'
Annotatio
(1556 edition):
Nunes' Annotatio
in extrema verba capitis de climatibus (Notes on the last words
of climate's chapter from Sacrobosco's Tractatus de sphaera) was
definitly his more published text.
This happened because it was included in
Élie Vinet's
(1509-1587)
many editions of Tractatus de sphaera.
See online:
Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla: (link)
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Manuscripts:
[Manuscrito de Florença], Florence, Biblioteca
Nazionale Centrale de Firenze, codice palatino 825.
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Lost Works:
Geometria dos triangulos spheraes.
De ortu et occasu signorum.
De astrolabio opus demonstrantiuum.
De planisphaerio geometrico.
De globo delineando ad nauigandi
artem.
Vitruvius'
De Architectura
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