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Kept Alive in Arabic

Greek books lost in whole or in part, whose missing parts survive only in their Arabic translation.

15 cards
Apollonius's Conics Diophantus's Arithmetica in Arabic Hero's Mechanics

Why these cards?

Each card is a Greek book whose original, or part of it, historians of science record as lost, and whose lost part reached us only in Arabic, or in a translation made from Arabic. Each card says exactly what Arabic kept.

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Apollonius's Conics
Apollonius of Perga
Diophantus's Arithmetica in Arabic
Diophantus of Alexandria
Hero's Mechanics
Hero of Alexandria
Galen's Anatomical Procedures
Galen
Ptolemy's Optics
Ptolemy
Menelaus's Spherics
Menelaus of Alexandria
Euclid's On Divisions of Figures
Euclid
The Book of Lemmas, ascribed to Archimedes
ascribed to Archimedes
Archimedes's Regular Heptagon
Archimedes
Apollonius's Cutting off of a Ratio
Apollonius of Perga
Diocles's On Burning Mirrors
Diocles
Philo's Pneumatics
Philo of Byzantium
Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses
Claudius Ptolemy
Galen's On Medical Experience
Galen
Rufus's Case Histories
Rufus of Ephesus