A History of Greek Mathematics: From Aristarchus to DiophantusDover Publications, 1981 - Mathematics, Greek |
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ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS PAGES 115 | 1 |
CONTINUED | 13 |
Traditions | 16 |
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Apollonius Archimedes Archimedes's axis base bisected Book centre of gravity chap chord circle circumference circumscribed commentary cone conic contained Ctesibius cube curve cylinder diameter Diophantus Dioptra draw drawn earth edition ellipse equal equation equivalent Eratosthenes Eucl Euclid Eutocius follows formula frustum Geminus geometry given ratio gives greater Greek Heron Hipparchus hyperbola inscribed figure lemmas loci means meet method method of exhaustion Metrica moon obtained Pappus Pappus's parabola parallel parallelogram perpendicular plane Posidonius problem Proclus produced proof Prop propositions proved Ptolemy radius rectangle regular polygon respectively right angles says sector segment semicircle sides solid solution solved sphere spherical spheroid spiral square stades straight line surface tangent Theon Theon of Alexandria theorem treatise triangle vertex weight whence