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Chapter 170 the needs of beginners. Freed from its typographical errors, we hereby present this work to readers eagerly wishing to learn this highly useful science.”96 What is important to note is that in the summary of the progress of mathematics provided in the author’s introduction to both editions, Crivelli firmly aligns himself with the moderns, mentioning Cartesian algebra and the invention of infinitesimal calculus (attributed by him to Leibniz) in a tone of high apprecia- tion.97 Hell apparently had no reason to dissent. To further locate Crivelli and his oeuvre, his Elementi di fisica (Elements of physics [1731; revised edition 1744]) should be mentioned, too: he closely follows Newton in all branches of physics from optics to astronomy, and in the enunciation of phenomena from colors through gravity to ebbs and tides, and speaks of Galileo as “the prince of scientists.”98 The first edition of another anonymous work, titled Adjumentum memoriae manuale chronologico-genealogico-historicum was also published by Hell in 1750. This “manual of chronology, genealogy, and history for the assistance of memory” consisted of thematically arranged lists of important names and events of sacred and profane history (biblical figures, popes, religious orders; rulers of European states, major battles, and peace treaties) that went through ten editions; the final (posthumous) revision was published in 1802.99 The Adjumentum was a pedagogical exercise, and he had other ample opportuni- ties to test and improve his skills in this regard in several other ways during his Viennese years. Already as a student of philosophy, he was appointed mandu- cator, a kind of supervisor of his peers; when he returned to the university for the course in theology in 1748, he was at first bidellus concionum et tonorum, that is, an assistant chairing test sermons and lectures, and then in his upper years the prefect of the students of theology in the Collegium Pazmanianum 96 [Giovanni Francesco Crivelli], Elementa arithmeticae numericae et litteralis exposita a Joanne Crivellio, c.r.s. Academiae Bononiensis Academico Honorario, et Regiae Societatis Londinensis Socio: Editio tertia, prioribus correctior (Vienna: Kaliwoda, 1745), 10. Cf. Cri- velli, Elementa arithmeticae numericae et litteralis exposita a Joanne Cribello (Venice: Laz- zaroni, 1740), vii. 97 [Crivelli], Elementa arithmeticae (1740), xii; [Crivelli], Elementa arithmeticae (1745), 7. 98 As the text of Elementi di fisica, esposti dal p. d. Giovanni Crivelli: S’aggiungono dell’ istesso autore due dissertazioni Sulle leggi del moto, e Dell’estimazione delle forze vive, ed I problemi aritmetici di Diofanto Alessandrino analiticamente dimostrati (Venice: Baglioni, 1744) is available in searchable form at https://babel.hathitrust.org (accessed April 12, 2019), it is easy to identify a total of no fewer than forty references to Newton by name. The apprecia- tion of Galileo (also earning twenty-nine mentions by name) is on p. 15. 99 Hell kept this work anonymous until he made a revision of it in 1773, published in Vienna in the following year.