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Diocles on burning mirrors : the Arabic translation of the lost Greek original / edited, with English translation and commentary by G.J. Toomer.
Diocles (Mathematician)Date: 1976- Books
Coping with mathematics (the Greek way) / by Ian Mueller.
Mueller, Ian.Date: 1980- Books
A history of Greek mathematics / by Sir Thomas Heath.
Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940.Date: 1921- Books
Selection illustrating the history of Greek mathematics / with an English translation by Ivor Thomas.
Date: 1951- Books
Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture / edited by C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll ; [foreword by Lewis Wolpert].
Date: 2002- Books
A history of ancient mathematical astronomy / O. Neugebauer.
Neugebauer, O. (Otto), 1899-1990.Date: 1975- Books
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A catalogue of a choice collection of books: Being the library of a Baronet Of the County of Suffolk, Lately Deceased. Containing The best Editions of the Greek and Roman Authors, and several of History, Divinity, Mathematics, Voyages, and Gardening. With some valuable Italian books and prints. Which will be sold by auction at Paul's Coffee-House in St Paul's Church-Yard. Beginnning on Wednesday October 22. 1740, exactly at Six in the Evening. Catalogues may be had of Mr. Whitridge at the Royal Exchange, Mr Lewis in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Mr Stagg, in Westminster-Hall, Mr Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr Thurlbourn at Cambridge, Mr Fletcher at Oxford, And at the Place of Sale.
Date: 1740]- Books
The bequest of the Greeks / With drawings by Harriett Hauck Stearns.
Dantzig, Tobias, 1884-1956.Date: [1955], ©1955- Books
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The genuine works of Flavius Josephus: Translated from the original Greek, according to Havercamp's accurate edition. Containing, I. Twenty books of the Jewish antiquities; with the life of Josephus, written by himself. II. Seven books of the Jewish War. III. Two books against Apion. IV. An extract out of Josephus's exhortation to the Greeks, concerning Hades, and the resurrection of the dead. Together with large notes, proper observations, and an index. To which are added, three dissertations, concerning, I. The testimonies of Josephus vindicated. II. God's command to Abraham to offer up Isaac, his son, for a sacrifice. III. Tacitus's accounts of the origin of the Jewish nation, and of the particulars of the last Jewish war. With a complete table of the Jewish coins, weights, and measures. In two volumes. ... By William Whiston, M.A. some time Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge.
Josephus, Flavius.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A complete commentary, with etymological, explanatory, critical and classical notes on Milton's Paradise Lost: Explaining 1. All the Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, Syriac, Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Russian, Tatarian, Saxon, Teutonic (or German) Dutch, Norman, (or Old French) Old English (or Scottish) Indian, American and Miltonian Words, i. e. Those of the Author's own Coining, thro' the whole Poem. 2. All the difficult Terms of Divinity, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, History, Geography, Architecture, Navigation, Anatomy, Surgery, Chymistry, Alchemy, Hunting, Hawking, Gardening, and other Human Arts and Sciences. 3. All the fine Epithets, the Mythology (or Fables) of the Antients) all the Figures of Grammar and Rhetoric, Comparisons, Similies, Digressions, different Persons; and setting all the Transposed Sentences in a plain English Prose Order; with many new Theological, Critical, Historical and Political Observations, never published before. For without such a Work the Poem is useless to most Readers of it. By James Paterson, M. A. And Philologist.
Paterson, James, M.A., philologist.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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Librorum in omni scientia & facultate insignium catalogus. A catalogue of Very Scarce and Valuable Books, in most Faculties, Sciences, and Languages. Viz. History of several Nations, particularly Great Britain and Ireland. Uoyages and Travels. Husbandry and Trade. Prints and Architecture. Divinity. Physic and Mathematics. Law, Common, Civil, and Canon. Lives and Memoirs. Poetry and Romances. Classics, cum Not. Uar. &c. Diccionaries and Grammars. In Greek, Latin, English, French, Italian and Spanish. With several Choice Law, and other Manuscripts; Tracts, and Plays; and many of the Old Elzevir Classics, most of them neatly Bound, several in Turkey-Leather, and many Large Paper. Which will begin to be Sold Cheap, (the Price mark'd in each Book) at Dan. Browne's, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, on Wednesday the 3d of March, 1724/5. Catalogues may be had at Mr. King's and Mr. Stagg's, in Westminster-Hall; Mr. Chapman's, in Pall-Mall; Mr. Graves's, in St. James's-Street Mr. Lewis's and Mr. Franklyn's, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Mr. Osborne's in Grays-Inn; Mr. Strahan's, in Cornhill, Booksellers: at the Chapter Coffee-House in Pater-Noster-Row; and at the Place of Sale.
Browne, Daniel, 1647-1727.Date: 1725]- Books
Greek science in the long run : essays on the Greek scientific tradition (4th c. BCE-17th c. CE) / edited by Paula Olmos.
Date: 2012- Books
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An universal etymological English dictionary: comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters. And also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physic, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chymistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematics, Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Music, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law, and the Etymology and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: And also the Dialects of our different Counties. Also a Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they speak, read, or write. A new edition, being the twenty-fifth. Besides retaining all former Improvements, there are now added, and interspersed in their proper Places, above two thousand Words, to be found in no other Edition of this Work; a List of Part of which is hereto subjoined. By N. Bailey, [greek text]
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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An universal etymological English dictionary: comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters. And also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physic, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chemistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematics, Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Music, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law, and the Etymology and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: And also the Dialects of our different Counties. Also a Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explications. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they speak, read, or write. the twenty-eighth edition. Besides retaining the Two Thousand Words, added and interspersed in their proper places, in a former Edition, together with other improvements, some further amendments have been made, so as to render the present Edition still more complete. By N. Bailey, [greek text]
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: M,DCCC. [1800]- Books
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An universal etymological English dictionary: comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian; as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper Characters. And also A brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words, derived from any of the aforesaid Languages, and Terms of Art, relating to Anatomy, Botany, Physic, Pharmacy, Surgery, Chymistry, Philosophy, Divinity, Mathematics, Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Music, Heraldry, Maritime Affairs, Military Discipline, Horsemanship, Hunting, Hawking, ... Fishing, Gardening, Husbandry, Handicrafts, Confectionary, Carving, Cookery, &c. Together with A large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrases used in our Ancient Statutes, Charters, Writs, Old Records, and Processes in Law, and the Etymology and Interpretation of the Proper Names of Men, Women, and remarkable Places in Great Britain: And also the Dialects of our different Counties. Also a Collection of our most common Proverbs, with their Explication. The whole Work compiled and methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant; and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen, and Foreigners, who are desirous thoroughly to understand what they speak, read, or write. A new edition, being the twenty-fifth. Besides retaining all former Improvements, there are now added, and interspersed in their proper Places, above Two Thousand Words, to be found in no other Edition of this Work; a List of Part of which is hereto subjoined. By N. Bailey, ...
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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The elements of Euclid, with dissertations, intended to assist and encourage a critical examination of these Elements, as the most effectual means of establishing a juster taste upon mathematical subjects, than that which at present prevails. Vol. II. By James Williamson, B. D.
Euclid.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Account of the life and writings of Robert Simson, M.D., late professor of mathematics in the University of Glasgow / By the Rev. William Trail.
Trail, William, 1746-1831.Date: 1812- Books
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The elements of Euclid. In which the propositions are demonstrated in a new and shorter manner than in former translations, and the arrangement of many of them altered; plain and spherical trigonometry, tables of logarithms from 1 to 10000, and tables of sines, tangents, and secants, both natural and artificial. By George Douglas, teacher of mathematics in the Academy at Ayr.
Euclid.Date: M.DCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The elements of Euclid, viz. the first six books, together with the eleventh and twelfth. The errors, by which Theon, or others, have long ago vitiated these books, are corrected, and some of Euclid's demonstrations are restored. Also the book of Euclid's data, in like manner corrected. By Robert Simson, M.D. emeritus professor of mathematics in the University of Glasgow. To this tenth edition are also annexed elements of plain and spherical trigonometry.
Euclid.Date: 1799- Books
Theodosiou Tripolitou Sphairik-ou bibliá 3 = Theodosij Tripolitæ Sphæericorvm, libri tres, nunquam antehac græce excusi / Iidem latinè redditi per Ioannem Penam. Regium mathematicum ad ... Carolvm Lotharingvm Cardinalem.
Theodosius, active 1st century B.C.Date: 1558- Books
Pappi Alexandrini Mathematicae collectiones a Federico Commandino Vrbinate in Latinum conuersae, et commentarijs illustratae. In hac nostra editione ab innumeris, quibus scatebant mendis, et præcipu ìn græco contextu diligenter vindicatæ et serenissimo principi Leopoldo Gvlielmo archidvci Avstriae, &c. dictatæ / [Pappus].
Pappus, of Alexandria.Date: 1660 [col. 1658]- Books
Claudii Ptolemaei Pheludiensis Alexandrini Almagestum seu magnae constructionis mathematicae opus plane diuinum / latina donatum lingua ab Georgio Trapezuntio usquequaq. doctissimo. Per Lucam Gauricum Neapolit. diuinae matheseos professorem egregium in alma urbe Veneta orbis regina recognitum. Anno salutis M D XXVIII labente.
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.Date: [Anno Chr[isti] 1528- Books
Contenta. Euclidis Megarensis Geometricorum elementorum liber XV. Campani Galli Tra[n]salpini in eosdem commentariorum libri XV. Theonis Alexandrini Bartholamæo Zamberto Veneto interprete, in tredecim priores, commentariorum libri XIII. Hypsiclis Alexandrini in duos posteriores, eodem Bartholamæo Zamberto Veneto interprete, commentariorum libri II / [Euclid].
Euclid.Date: [1516]- Books
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Euclid's Elements of geometry, from the Latin translation of Commandine. To which is added, A treatise of the nature of arithmetic of logarithms; Likewise Another of the Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry; With A Preface, shewing the Usefulness and Excellency of this Work. By Doctor John Keil, F. R. S. and late Professor of Astronomy in Oxford. The Whole Revised; where deficient, Supplied; where lost or corrupted, Restored. Also Many Faults committed by Dr. Harris, Mr. Caswel, Mr. Heynes, and other Trigonometrical Writers, are shewn, and in those Cases where They are mistaken, here are given Solutions Geometrically True. An Ample Account of which may be seen the preface, by Samuel Cunn. The fifth edition. To which is subjoined an appendix, containing the Investigation of those Series's omitted by the Author. And the Difference between Dr. Keil and Mr. Cunn impartially examined and adjusted.
Euclid.Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
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The elements of Euclid explain'd in a new, but most easie method: Together with the use of every proposition through all parts of the mathematicks. Written in French by that excellent mathematician, F. Claud. Francis Milliet de Chales, of the Society of Jesus. Now made English, and a multitude of errors corrected, which had escap'd in the original.
Euclid.Date: 1726