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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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Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses
Claudius Ptolemy