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The Greek Geometers Before Euclid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2017

J. S. Mackay
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The learned professor of Higher Geometry in the university of Genoa has undertaken to write a treatise on The Exact Sciences in Ancient Greece. The treatise will consist of five books, the first being devoted to the period of preparation, the second to the period of greatest splendour, the third to the period of decadence or the epoch of the commentators, the fourth will trace the mathematical discoveries incidentally made by the Greek astronomers and surveyors, and the fifth will treat of the arithmetic of the Greeks.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , April 1894 , pp. 3 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1894

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References

page 3 note 1 Le Scienze Esatte nett’ Antica Grecia, di Gino Loria (1893).

page 3 note 1 The titles of three of these are:—

Cantor, Moritz, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, vol. i. (1880), vol. ii. (1892)Google Scholar.

Tannery, Paul, La Géométric Grecque (1887)Google Scholar.

Allman, G. J., Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid (1889)Google Scholar.

page 3 note 2 Preserved by Proclus (450 A.D.) in his Commentary on the First Book of Euclid.