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1. Greeks poetry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Having made a collection of poems which were about, or mentioned, Isaac Newton, I [EFR] looked for poems which were about, or mentioned, Euclid and Archimedes. ... This extract is from the Eighth Book: The Parsonage. Wordsworth is the only poet in our

2. Andrea Tacquet (1612 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: For example 'The elements of Euclid; with select theorems out of Archimedes by. ... William Whiston writes in his Memoirs that. In March, 1702/3, I published my third book, which was Tacquet's 'Euclid, with select theorems of Archimedes, and with the

3. Knorr's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Knorr_books/

   7 Mar 2023: Among the ancient authors who are discussed and studied, are fragments of Euclid, Archimedes, Menelaus, Philon of Byzantium, Heron of Alexandria, Pappus and Eutocius; among the medieval, especially the Arabic versions ... Knorr proceeds instead by

4. Mathematics at Aberdeen 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Aberdeen_1/

   7 Mar 2023: of Euclid and the Sphere. ... Preference was to be given to Liddell's own close relatives. The man chosen for the Chair had to be well versed in Euclid, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Archimedes and other Mathematics.

5. Apollonius of Perga English version PDF (601k)

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

   3 Mar 2021: EUCLID, ARCHIMEDES and APOLLONIUS that they sought to preserve. ... Heinz Klaus Strick Leverkusen, p. 2 / 5. ARCHIMEDES and EUCLID had already dealt with the curves that arise when a plane cuts through a cone, but the cones they considered had

6. Arthur Stanley Eddington, Kt., O.M., F.R.S., Hon.F.R.S.E. - RSE…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Eddington_RSE_Obituary/

   7 Mar 2023: For this purpose he assumed the axioms and propositions of geometry as they had been set forth in the preceding generation by Euclid; so that what Archimedes did was to assume ... Now, as Sir Edmund Whittaker has remarked, Eddington is simply the modern

7. Thabit (836 - 901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   30 Dec 2023: the rule without proving it perfectly because they have been neglected by [Euclid and Nicomachus]. ... E A Moody and M Clagett (eds.), The medieval science of weights, Treatises ascribed to Euclid, Archimedes, Thabit ibn Qurra, Jordanus de Nemore, and

8. Dijksterhuis books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dijksterhuis_books/

   12 Jul 2023: Dijksterhuis, an expert on Copernicus, Stevin and Descartes as well as Archimedes and Euclid, enables his readers to trace the continuity of European science from the Greeks, through the revival of ... A preliminary chapter usefully collects the lemmas

9. Infinity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: in the fourth century and Euclid and Archimedes in the third. ... Archimedes takes three pairs of magnitudes infinite in number and asserts that they are, respectively, "equal in number".

10. Simon Stevin (1548 - 1620) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: 1583) Stevin presented geometry based largely on Euclid and Archimedes but the problems which he studied show that he was also influenced by Dürer. ... on hydrostatics contained notable improvements to the work of Archimedes on this topic.