The acknowledgement text “Mechanics in sixteenth-century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, & Galileo by Stillman Drake & Israel Edward Drabkin. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. © 1969 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved” was originally not included in the published version of chapter 4 entitled ‘Translation and Transcription.’

The above mentioned acknowledgement text has been included in page IV and in the opening page of chapter 4 (p.no. 261).