On the errors of orontius finaeus, the king's professor of mathematics at paris, who thought that between two given lines he found two proportional means under continuous proportion, that he squared the circle, doubled the cube, taught the art of describing any rectilinear polygon in a circle, and made the differences of longitude of places otherwise than by lunar eclipses, even at given times, book one. - conimbricae: ex officina ioannis barreri, & ioannis aluari, 1546. - [4], 92 p. : ill.;fol. Collection: Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura. Nunes - De erratis Orontii Finaei, 1546 - 103782
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