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Menelaus’ Spherics
significance of Menelaus’ Spherics. They followed Menelaus’ approach to spherical geometry and went... under Roman imperial rule. It addressed ...
Translating a Work of Higher Mathematics
collaborated on the long-term project of translating an elaborate work of pure geometry dealing... geometry, following in the footsteps ...
Studying the Mathematical Sciences
(mid-second century CE). It was also recognised as containing texts on basic topics in geometry not covered... of the ecliptic, geometrical optics, ...
Competing Theories of Spherical Trigonometry
as the Epistle of the Sector in the Science of Geometry (Risālat al-qaṭṭāʿ fī ʿilm al-handasa).... Edmond Halley (1656–1742), Savilian ...
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,...
The British Library: How Many Institutions Became One
81055/vdc_100023511061.0x00001b A diagram from one of Sloane’s Arabic manuscripts on the subject of geometry. Sloane MS 3034, f....
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
