Author: Denis Sullivan
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The "Parangelmata Poliorcetica" and the "Geodesia," two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the archetype manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1605 and accompanied by an English translation and commentary. The illustrations, reproduced in this edition, go beyond the traditional ground plans of the time and show elevations to represent finished devices in action.
Siegecraft
Author: Denis Sullivan
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The "Parangelmata Poliorcetica" and the "Geodesia," two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the archetype manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1605 and accompanied by an English translation and commentary. The illustrations, reproduced in this edition, go beyond the traditional ground plans of the time and show elevations to represent finished devices in action.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The "Parangelmata Poliorcetica" and the "Geodesia," two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the archetype manuscript Vaticanus graecus 1605 and accompanied by an English translation and commentary. The illustrations, reproduced in this edition, go beyond the traditional ground plans of the time and show elevations to represent finished devices in action.
A History of the Teaching of Elementary Geometry
Author: Alva Walker Stamper
Publisher:
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Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie
Author: Barnabas Hughes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387729313
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 – ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known as De Practica Geometrie. This translation offers a reconstruction of De Practica Geometrie as the author judges Fibonacci wrote it, thereby correcting inaccuracies found in numerous modern histories. It is a high quality translation with supplemental text to explain text that has been more freely translated. A bibliography of primary and secondary resources follows the translation, completed by an index of names and special words.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387729313
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 – ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known as De Practica Geometrie. This translation offers a reconstruction of De Practica Geometrie as the author judges Fibonacci wrote it, thereby correcting inaccuracies found in numerous modern histories. It is a high quality translation with supplemental text to explain text that has been more freely translated. A bibliography of primary and secondary resources follows the translation, completed by an index of names and special words.
Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry
Author: Roshdi Rashed
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135072531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding volumes of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, which focused on founding figures and commentators in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the historical and epistemological development of ‘infinitesimal mathematics’ as it became clearly articulated in the oeuvre of Ibn al-Haytham. This volume examines the increasing tendency, after the ninth century, to explain mathematical problems inherited from Greek times using the theory of conics. Roshdi Rashed argues that Ibn al-Haytham completes the transformation of this ‘area of activity,’ into a part of geometry concerned with geometrical constructions, dealing not only with the metrical properties of conic sections but with ways of drawing them and properties of their position and shape. Including extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities on the subject, this book contributes a more informed and balanced understanding of the internal currents of the history of mathematics and the exact sciences in Islam, and of its adaptive interpretation and assimilation in the European context. This fundamental text will appeal to historians of ideas, epistemologists and mathematicians at the most advanced levels of research.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135072531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding volumes of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, which focused on founding figures and commentators in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the historical and epistemological development of ‘infinitesimal mathematics’ as it became clearly articulated in the oeuvre of Ibn al-Haytham. This volume examines the increasing tendency, after the ninth century, to explain mathematical problems inherited from Greek times using the theory of conics. Roshdi Rashed argues that Ibn al-Haytham completes the transformation of this ‘area of activity,’ into a part of geometry concerned with geometrical constructions, dealing not only with the metrical properties of conic sections but with ways of drawing them and properties of their position and shape. Including extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities on the subject, this book contributes a more informed and balanced understanding of the internal currents of the history of mathematics and the exact sciences in Islam, and of its adaptive interpretation and assimilation in the European context. This fundamental text will appeal to historians of ideas, epistemologists and mathematicians at the most advanced levels of research.
The Teaching of Elementary Geometry in the Seventeenth Century ...
Author: Franklin Wesley Kokomoor
Publisher:
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Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Pages : 664
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Beyond the Learned Academy
Author: Philip Beeley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198863950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198863950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century.
Senate documents
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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