Kept Alive in Arabic
The Book of Lemmas, ascribed to Archimedes
المأخوذات المنسوب إلى أرشميدس
Fifteen propositions on circles, whose earliest known copy is Arabic, in Thabit ibn Qurra's translation, from which it passed into Latin. Its attribution to Archimedes is doubtful, for the book names Archimedes himself; a later scholar may have gathered the propositions.
- Author
- ascribed to Archimedes (3rd century BC; translated by Thabit ibn Qurra)
- Field
- Mathematics
- What Arabic kept
- The whole book
- Arabic title
- كتاب المأخوذات
- Latin title
- Liber Assumptorum
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