The Commentary of Pappus on Book X of Euclid's Elements. Arabic Text and Translation by William Thomson with Introductory Remarks, Notes, and a Glossary of Technical Terms by Gustav Junge and William Thomson [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930].

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Verlag: New York & London: Johnson Reprint, 1968., 1968

Beschreibung

Facsimile Reprint of original 1930 Harvard University Press edition. 294 pp. Original cloth. Very Good, without dust jacket. The original edition was Vol. VIII in the Harvard Semitic Series. 'The text of Abu 'Uthman al-Dimishqi's Arabic translation of a Greek commentary on the tenth book of Euclid's Elements, generally believed to be part of Pappus' commentary on the Elements, is published -- with an English trans. and notes -- in William Thomson and Gustav Junge, The Commentary of Pappus on Book X of Euclid's Elements, VIII in Harvard Semitic Series (Cambridge, Mass., 1930; repr. New York, 1968), 189-260. This supersedes the first printed version of the text by F. Woepcke, The Commentary on the Tenth Book of Euclid's Elements (Paris, 1855) -- published without indication of author, place, or date' (Ivor Thomas in D.S.B. X: 303).

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Commentary of Pappus on Book X of Euclid's Elements. Arabic Text and Translation by William Thomson with Introductory Remarks, Notes, and a Glossary of Technical Terms by Gustav Junge and William Thomson [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930].
• Verlag: New York & London: Johnson Reprint, 1968.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1968
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket