Kept Alive in Arabic
Euclid's On Divisions of Figures
قسمة إقليدس
Euclid wrote on dividing figures – triangles, trapezia and circles – by lines in given ratios; its Greek original is lost. Franz Woepcke found its Arabic text in a Paris manuscript and published it in 1851, and Raymond Archibald rebuilt the book from it in 1915.
- Author
- Euclid (c. 300 BC; survives in an Arabic manuscript in Paris)
- Field
- Mathematics
- What Arabic kept
- The book, incomplete
- Greek title
- Περὶ διαιρέσεων
- Arabic title
- كتاب إقليدس في القسمة
- Latin title
- De divisionibus
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