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PREFACE

OF THE PARISIAN EDITOR.

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND LEARNED JURIST

LORD AIMERY DE RANCONNET,

Aimery de Ranconnet (1498–1559) was a distinguished French magistrate and humanist scholar who possessed a renowned collection of ancient manuscripts.

ROYAL COUNSELOR,

CHRISTIAN WECHEL,

Christian Wechel (1495–1554) was a prominent Parisian printer of German origin, famous for producing high-quality editions of Greek and Latin classics.

PRINTER,

SENDS GREETINGS.

original: "S. D." abbreviated from "Salutem Dicit," a standard Latin greeting meaning "he says hello" or "sends greetings."

Since it is the mark of a shameless and ungrateful man, most excellent sir, to wish to conceal a benefit received from another and to claim it for himself as his own, I have considered it something of a crime if these divine speculations on arithmetic arithmetica: In this context, the term refers to the theoretical philosophy of numbers (number theory) as understood by the Pythagoreans, distinct from practical calculation. or numbers [were released] from my press into the public... The sentence continues onto the next page.