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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.

5 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