, a patrician or senator of Venice, distinguished for his knowledge
, a patrician or senator of Venice,
distinguished for his knowledge in mathematics, flourished
about the middle of the sixteenth century. Some of his
translations, as well as original works, were published in
his life-time, as 1. “Heronis liber de machinis bellicis, necnon liber de Geodiesia, ex Graeco Latine,
” Venice, Procli in primuin elementorum Euclidis libri
quatuor,
” translated into Latin, Padua, de numero geometrico,
”
Boulogne, 1556; and 4. A system of Cosmography, Venice, 1585, 8vo. We have an account likewise of one of
his writings, entitled “Cryptographia,
” (or according to the Dict. Hist. “Rytmomachia,
”) describing an ancient
game attributed to Pythagoras. This was translated by
Augustus duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, under the
name of Gustavus Seienus. On Barocci’s death, his manuscripts were sold by his heirs, and came to the Bodleian
library, as part of Langbaine’s collection.