Scripta clarissimi mathematici M. Ioannis Regiomontani, de torqueto, astrolabio armillari, regula magna ptolemaica, baculo[que] astronomico, & observationibus cometarum, aucta necessariis, Ioannis Schoneri ... additionibus. Item observationes motuum solis, ac stellarum tam fixarum [qua ...] erraticarum. Item libellus M. Georgii Purbachii de quadrato geometrico ...

TO THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF SENATORS
of the City of Nuremberg, most prudent Lords,
Ioannes Schoner of Karlstadt sends greetings.

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Among the outstanding ornaments of great cities, most noble Fathers, not the least praise is earned by those famous monuments which were edited by great and learned men for the common utility of life: by which they commended the teaching of the most beautiful and best things to the memory and study of posterity, as a public inheritance. Nor is the name of Syracuse clearer because of the many excellent ornaments of the city, the statues and paintings with which Syracuse abounded, than for the most excellent works of that one famous mathematician Archimedes, which will endure for all posterity. Thus, in my judgment, it is no more glorious for you, most noble Fathers, that you possess a Republic best established by the most beautiful and just laws, and exceptionally instructed and adorned by the magnitude and splendor of public buildings and resources, than that you have, for many years in this city of yours, retained and preserved the most excellent possession of philosophy and the best arts, as if it were a hereditary right, through public generosity. For since no better good has been granted to humans by God than the κοινὴν common refers to the common search for knowledge search for doctrine and truth: all who contribute any study, effort, labor, industry, or expense toward the preservation of honest disciplines deserve well of the entire mortal race.