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Spherics of Theodosios
Av Nathan Sidoli, R.S.D. Thomas
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Accompanied by an introduction to the life and works of …
Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN
Av Hermann Hunger, John Steele
Häftad, 2020
755 kr
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MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar …
Spherics of Theodosios
Av Nathan Sidoli, R.S.D. Thomas
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Accompanied by an introduction to the life and works of …
Foundations of Celestial Reckoning
Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems
Häftad, 2019
725 kr
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The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian …
Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
Greek Text, Translation, Analysis, and Relevant Scholia
Av Christián C. Carman, Rodolfo P. Buzón
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by a full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia.Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BC. He was one of the first Greek …
Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
Greek Text, Translation, Analysis, and Relevant Scholia
Av Christián C. Carman, Rodolfo P. Buzón
Häftad, 2024
689 kr
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This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by a full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia.Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BC. He was one of the first Greek …
Medicina Plinii
Latin Text, Translation, and Commentary
Av Yvette Hunt
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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This book presents the first ever English translation of the Medicina Plinii, one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.The work, which predates AD 400, was created as a quick reference work for travellers, and became and …
Learning With Spheres
The golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja
Av Anuj Misra
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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This book provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and an English translation (accompanied by critical notes and technical analyses) of the chapter on spheres (golādhyāya) from Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal …
Arithmetica of Diophantus
A Complete Translation and Commentary
Av Jean Christianidis, Jeffrey Oaks
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica, along with a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary.Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century, …
Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary
Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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The Ga¿itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga¿itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si¿hatilakasuri (13th century CE). Si¿hatilakasuri’s commentary upon the …
Optics and Theory of Vision in the Kitāb nūr alʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn
Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary of the Second maqāla
Inbunden, 2026
2578 kr
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This book offers a new critical edition, translation, and commentary of the second maqāla – onoptics and theory of vision – of the 8th century AH/AD 14th century Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿal-funūn.The Kitāb nūr al-ʿuyūn wa-ǧāmiʿ al-funūn is a significant medieval Arabic treatise on ophthalmology. …
Arithmetica of Diophantus
A Complete Translation and Commentary
Av Jean Christianidis, Jeffrey Oaks
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria’s Arithmetica, along with a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary.Before his work became the inspiration for the emerging field of number theory in the seventeenth century, …
Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN
Av Hermann Hunger, John Steele
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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MUL.APIN, written sometime before the 8th century BC, was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists, descriptions of planetary phases, mathematical schemes for the length of day and night, a discussion of the luni-solar …
Foundations of Celestial Reckoning
Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems
Inbunden, 2016
2818 kr
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The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian …
Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary
Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts
Inbunden, 2019
3147 kr
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The Gaṇitatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Gaṇitatilaka by Śrīpati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Siṃhatilakasūri (13th century CE). Siṃhatilakasūri’s commentary upon the …
Learning With Spheres
The golādhyāya in Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja
Av Anuj Misra
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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This book provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and an English translation (accompanied by critical notes and technical analyses) of the chapter on spheres (golādhyāya) from Nityānanda’s Sarvasiddhāntarāja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal …
Medicina Plinii
Latin Text, Translation, and Commentary
Av Yvette Hunt
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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This book presents the first ever English translation of the Medicina Plinii, one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.The work, which predates AD 400, was created as a quick reference work for travellers, and became and …
