«L'opere stupende dell'arti più ingegnose». La recezione degli Πνευματικά [Pneumatikà] di Erone Alessandrino nella cultura italiana del Cinquecento

1575: just posthumous, Federico Commandino’s Latin version of PneumatikÉ by Erone Alessandrino is printed in Urbino. The text’s extraordinary fortune originates from here stretching along the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and intersecting with the emergence of mechanics as a discipline claiming its own unique status. The book attempts to track the dissemination of a text which, handled by engineers and human-ists alike, established a new technical knowledge under the banner of the ‘return of ancient philosophers’.