Encounters with Euclid : : How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World / / Benjamin Wardhaugh.
A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring su...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 34 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- I: AUTHOR
- Alexandria
- Elephantine
- Hypsicles
- Theon of Alexandria
- Stephanos the scribe
- Al-Hajjaj
- Adelard
- Erhard Ratdolt
- Marget Seymer her hand
- Edward Bernard
- Interlude
- II: SAGE
- Plato
- Proclus Diadochus
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim
- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom
- Christoph Clavius
- Xu Guangqi
- Blame not our author
- Baruch Spinoza
- Anne Lister
- Interlude
- III: HERO
- Petechonsis
- Dividing the monochord
- Hyginus
- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani
- Lady Geometria
- Piero della Francesca
- Euclid Speidell
- Isaac Newton
- Interlude
- IV: SHADOW AND MASK
- Mary Fairfax
- François Peyrard
- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii
- Maggie and Tom
- Simson in Urdu
- His modern rivals
- Thomas Little Heath
- Max Ernst
- Euclidean designs
- Lambda
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Image Credits
- Notes on Sources
- Select Bibliography
- Index