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Spherics of Theodosios

Inglese · Tascabile

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This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios, a canonical mathematical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Suitable for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods.


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Part I: Introduction; Part II: Translation; Part III: Commentary; Part IV: Paraphrase.


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Nathan Sidoli is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at Waseda University, Tokyo. He has published widely on Greek and Islamic mathematics and astronomy, including Th¿bit ibn Qurra's Restoration of Euclid's Data, with Yoichi Isahaya, and is currently co-editor of Historia Mathematica and SCIAMVS.
R.S.D. Thomas is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba and fellow of St John's College in Winnipeg, Canada. His previous historical work was Euclid's Phaenomena, with J.L. Berggren. His main scholarly activity since 1992 has been editing the journal Philosophia Mathematica.


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This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios, a canonical mathematical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Suitable for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods.

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