Erhard Ratdolt (1442–1528) was an early German printer. From Augsburg, he was active printing in Venice, where he worked from 1476 to 1486. Augsburg is an independent City in the south-west of Bavaria. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the
There he produced a Kalendario (1476) for Regiomontanus, and editions of the Historia Romana of Appianus (1477), and Euclid's Elements (1482), solving the problem of reproducing mathematical diagrams. Johannes Müller von Königsberg ( June 6, 1436 &ndash July 6, 1476) known by his Latin Pseudonym Regiomontanus Euclid's Elements ( Greek:) is a mathematical and geometric Treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek Other works were the Poeticon astronomicon, also from 1482, Haly Abenragel (1485),and Alchabitius (1503). Poeticon astronomicon is a Star atlas whose text is attributed to " Hyginus " though the true authorship is disputed Abû l-Hasan 'Alî ibn Abî l-Rijâl (أبو الحسن علي ابن أبي الرجال (commonly known as Haly, Hali, Albohazen Haly filii Abenragel Alchabitius (or Alcabitius Medieval Latin Arabic: Abû al-Saqr al-Qabîsî 'Abd al-'Azîz ibn Uthmân, عبدالصقر القبيصي عبد
He returned to Augsburg, where he continued in business as a printer. His innovations of layout and typography, mixing type and woodcuts, have subsequently been much admired. For the origins of the technique and non-artistic use see Woodblock printing; for the related technique invented in the 18th century see Wood engraving
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