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Translating a Work of Higher Mathematics
an elaborate work of pure geometry dealing with the properties of the parabola, ellipse and hyperbola... was the intellectual heir to the Hellenistic ...
Studying the Mathematical Sciences
in geometry not covered by Euclid’s Elements; the sizes and distances of the sun and moon, Babylonian schemes for rising-times of arcs of the ...
The British Library: How Many Institutions Became One
the British Library. A diagram from one of Sloane’s Arabic manuscripts on the subject of geometry. Sloane MS...
al-Bīrūnī: a high point in the Development of Islamic Astronomy
about a third of the book. The remaining two thirds are dedicated to geometry, arithmetic, algebra,...
Elements of Geometry
Book World Digital Library Qatar National Library text Elements of Geometry This copy of Mabādi' al-handasa (Elements of geometry) is ...
86 images in record Ref: 12912 Date(s): 1854
A Guide to Geometry, Surveying, the Launching of Missiles, and the Planting of Mines
Manuscript World Digital Library Qatar National Library text A Guide to Geometry, Surveying, the Launching of Missiles, and the Planting of Mines ...
161 images in record Ref: 9543 Date(s): 1779-01-28
Anonymous treatise on geometry
A short anonymous treatise on geometry in the form of a commentary on an unknown work. The tables said to follow the text (see f. 28r, line 18, ...
8 images in record Ref: Add MS 23570, ff 25v-28r Date(s): c 1605
Three treatises on astronomy and geometry
and geometry British Library: Oriental Manuscripts Codex; ff. v+135+4 1322-1599...
296 images in record Ref: IO Islamic 1148 Date(s): 1322-1599
Fawā’id al-Jamālī fī uṣūl al-handasah فوائد الجمالي في أصول الهندسة Samarqandī, Muḥammad ibn Ashraf سمرقندي، محمد بن أشرف
Persian translation of a treatise on geometry, the Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (أشكال التأسيس) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī ...
39 images in record Ref: Add MS 23570, ff 117v-133v Date(s): 1605-1610
