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  1. Eutocius (480 - 540) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eutocius/

    7 Mar 2023: It is thought that the first of Eutocius's commentaries on Archimedes was written around 510. ... He explains that he found no satisfactory commentaries on Archimedes before his own time and promises further elucidation of the master if his work should

  2. Chronology for 500 - 900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/4/

    7 Mar 2023: Eutocius of Ascalon writes commentaries on Archimedes' work. ... Eutocius writes commentaries on the works of Archimedes anda mathematician of note, is the architect for the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople.

  3. Cissoid of Diocles - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Cissoid/

    7 Mar 2023: He also studied the problem of Archimedes to cut a sphere by a plane in such a way that the volumes of the segments shall have a given ratio. ... It is in commentaries on Archimedes' On the sphere and the cylinder that the cissoid appears and is

  4. Greek sources II - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_2/

    10 Jul 2023: The other bound for Diocles dates which was deduced by Heath comes from Eutocius who wrote commentaries on three works of Archimedes in the first quarter of the 6th century AD. ... Eutocius's commentary on Archimedes On the Sphere and Cylinder II

  5. Isaac Barrow English version PDF (308k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/barrow.pdf

    4 Mar 2021: Following the works of EUCLID, BARROW also published commentaries on some writings of. ... ARCHIMEDES and APOLLONIUS in the 1670s. Particularly noteworthy, however, are his contributions to.

  6. Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 - 1274) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Tusi_Nasir/

    30 Dec 2023: He made important contributions to astronomy and wrote many commentaries on Greek texts. . ... A Kubesov, The commentaries of Nasi ad-Din at-Tusi on the treatise of Archimedes 'On the sphere and cylinder' (Russian), Voprosy Istor.

  7. al Tusi PDF (855k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/al-tusi.pdf

    29 Apr 2022: He wrote numerous commentaries on texts by Greek mathematicians and philosophers, e.g. ... on the work of ARCHIMEDES: On the sphere and cylinder. In contrast to some of his predecessors, he held the view that not only straight lines but also curves have