Diocles on burning mirrors: the Arabic translation of the lost Greek original |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Conics in On Burning Mirrors | 9 |
Influence of On Burning Mirrors | 18 |
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DIOCLES, On Burning Mirrors: The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original G. J. Toomer No preview available - 2012 |
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Almagest ancient Anthemius Apollonian Apollonius Arabic Archimedes astronomy axis Bobbio Bobbio Mathematical Fragment Burning Mirrors burning-mirror circle circumference cissoid cone whose base conic sections Conics Conoids and Spheroids construction continuous proportion curve diameter Diocles Diodes Dionysodorus distance doubling the cube draw drawn ellipse emendation equal Euclid Eutocius Fadiliyya focal property given in position given line given ratio gnomon Greek Heath Heiberg hyperbola ibid ibn al-Haytham Kott manuscript mean proportionals Menaechmus Meshhed OLTTO ordinate OTTO OUTUS Pappus parabola parallel parameter perpendicular plane problem proof Prop Pythion radius rectangle references right angles right-angled cone segment Seiten Shrine Library Sphere and Cylinder spherical straight line sundial surface Suter Thasos theorem translation treatise triangle Trpos Ttjs TTJV TTOOS TTpos Zenodorus
Bibliographic information
| Title | Diocles on burning mirrors: the Arabic translation of the lost Greek original Volume 1 of Sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences |
| Authors | Diocles ((Mathematician)), G. J. Toomer |
| Editor | G. J. Toomer |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 1, 2010 |
| ISBN | 3540074783, 9783540074786 |
| Length | 249 pages |
| Subjects | › CONIC SECTIONS Conic sections MATHEMATICS, Greek Mathematics / General Mathematics, Greek |
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