Erhard Ratdolt
Erhard Ratdolt (
1442â€"
1528) was an early German printer. From
Augsburg, he was active printing in
Venice, where he worked from 1476 to 1486.
There he produced a Kalendario (1476) for
Regiomontanus, and editions of the
Historia Romana of
Appianus (1477), and
Euclid's Elements (1482), solving the problem of reproducing mathematical diagrams. Other works were the
Poeticon astronomicon, also from 1482,
Haly Abenragel (1485),and
Alchabitius (1503).
He returned to Augsburg, where he continued in business as a printer. His innovations of layout and typography, mixing type and
woodcuts, have subsequently been much admired.
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