CHAPTER LIX — Critical Commentary & Notes

On Lateral (Faceted) Columns, and First on the Three-Sided (Triangular) Column, Called the Serratile Body (Plates XLV–XLVI).

Historical & Mathematical Commentary

• Paganini 1509 Plates Referenced:

  • Plate XLV (0281.rst, Laterato Solido / Triangular Prism, solid) and Plate XLVI (0283.rst, Laterato Vacuo / Triangular Prism, skeletal).

• Etymology of *:term:`Corpo Seratile <corpo-seratile>`*: In the medieval Gerard of Cremona and Campanus translations of Euclid Books XI–XII, a triangular prism (prisma) is rendered corpus serratile (“sawed body”).

Constantin Winterberg’s Commentary (1889 Edition)

• Winterberg Footnote 1 (Cap. LIX, p. 251): Compare the second marginal diagram on p. 106 (Paganini Folio 0051, 0051.g2.png). (Winterberg Fussnote 1 (Cap. LIX, S. 251): cfr. 2. Fig. pag. 106.)

Philological and Folio Apparatus

• 1509 Paganini Witness Folios: 0052 (f. 18v–f. 18v)

• Winterberg 1889 Italian Source: winterberg/01_divina_proportione_italian/059_cap_LIX.txt

• Winterberg 1889 German Source: winterberg/03_divina_proportione_german/059_cap_LIX.txt

• Marginal Woodcut Diagrams: 0 figure(s) extracted from the 1509 Venice witness.