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  • - Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator
    av Andrew I. Dale, Pierre Simon Laplace & Marquis de
    1 846,-

    Pierre-Simon Laplace is remembered among probabilitists for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. This is a translation, providing a commentary by the translator including histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.

  • - A Study of Taylor's Role in the History of Perspective Geometry. Including Facsimiles of Taylor's Two Books on Perspective
    av Kirsti Andersen
    1 400,-

    The aim of this book is to make accessible the two important but rare works of Brook Taylor and to describe his role in the history of linear perspective. Taylor's works, Linear Perspective and New Principles on Linear Perspective, are among the most important sources in the history of the theory of perspective.

  • - A Study of the De Solidorum Elementis
    av P. J. Federico
    2 262,-

    So many contradictory statements regarding a Descartes manuscript and Euler, by various mathematicians and historians of mathematics, were encountered that it was decided to write a separate study of the relevant part of the Descartes manuscript on polyhedra.

  • - Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary Volume I
    av Elaheh Kheirandish
    1 995,-

    Like all classical Greek texts on science, Euclid's works on optics initially came to the West mainly through medieval Arabic texts and commentaries. This book presents a critical translation of an Arabic texts and of Arabic commentaries on the text, and places the whole in a historical context.

  • - in the Arabic Translation Attributed to Qusta ibn Luqa
    av Jacques Sesiano
    1 697,-

    This edition of Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica, which are extant only in a recently discovered Arabic translation, is the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Brown University Department of the History of Mathematics in May 1975.

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