Federico Commandino

Federico Commandino, who lived from 1509 to 5 September 1575 according to the English Wikipedia article (the MacTutor biography gives 1506), was an Italian humanist and mathematician born in Urbino. He studied at Padua and then at Ferrara, where he received his doctorate in medicine under Antonio Musa Brassavola, and he had many patrons, among them Guidobaldo II della Rovere in Urbino and Cardinal Ranuccio Farnese in Rome. He was most famous as the translator of the works of ancient mathematicians, working from Greek and Arabic into Latin and Italian, and he was responsible for the publication of many treatises of Archimedes. He also translated Aristarchus, Pappus, Hero, Ptolemy, Apollonius and Euclid. His pupils included Guidobaldo del Monte and Bernardino Baldi, and Commandino theorem first appears in his work on centers of gravity.