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On burning mirrors / Diocles ; the Arabic translation of the lost Greek original edited, with English translation and commentary by G. J. Toomer.
LIBRA QA31 .D4913
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diocles (Mathematician)
- Series:
- Sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences ; v. 1.
- Sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences ; v. 1
- Standardized Title:
- Peri pyreiōn. English & Arabic
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics, Greek.
- Conic sections--Early works to 1800.
- Conic sections.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1976.
- Notes:
- Translation of Peri pyreiōn.
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 217-223.
- ISBN:
- 0387074783
- OCLC:
- 173517247
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