Prolegomena mathematica : : from Apollonius of Perga to late Neoplatonism : with an appendix on Pappus and the history of Platonism / / by Jaap Mansfeld.
This is the first study to deal with the history of Greek mathematics - starting with Appollonius and including astronomy - as part of the history of literary culture. It attempts to find out how mathematical works were presented by original authors (e.g. Ptolemy), and introduced and explained by co...
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Superior document: | Philosophia antiqua, v. 80 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998. |
Year of Publication: | 1998 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Philosophia Antiqua
80. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 178 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material
- PRELIMINARIES
- PAPPUS’ COLLECTIO
- COMMENTARIES ON EUCLID, THE SCHOLIA ON EUCLID’S ELEMENTS AND PAPPUS’ COMMENTARY ON BOOK X
- APOLLONIUS’ PROEMS AND EUTOCIUS’ COMMENTARY
- EUTOCIUS’ COMMENTARIES ON ARCHIMEDES, AND THE VITA
- HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
- THEON(?)’S PREFACE TO EUCLID’S OPTICA
- MARINUS ON EUCLID’S DATA
- PTOLEMY’S PREFACES
- COMMENTARIES ON PTOLEMY
- NICOMACHUS OF GERASA AND HIS COMMENTATORS
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX 1: THE TITLE OF PTOLEMY’S ASTROLOGICAL TREATISE
- APPENDIX 2: PAPPUS AND THE HISTORY OF PLATONISM
- COMPLEMENTARY NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX LOCORUM POTIORUM
- INDEX RERUM ET NOMINUM ANTIQUORUM
- PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA: A SERIES OF STUDIES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY by J. MANSFELD , D.T. RUNIA and J.C.M. VAN WINDEN.