Arabic in the Sciences
On Measuring Plane and Spherical Figures
مساحة الأشكال
The Banu Musa's book on measuring figures, translated by Gerard of Cremona, carried Archimedes' geometry, as the Arabs had recast it, to Fibonacci, and was still used in the 16th century.
- Author
- The Banu Musa (Muhammad, Ahmad and al-Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir) (Muhammad d. 873)
- Field
- Mathematics
- Arabic title
- كتابُ معرفة مساحة الأشكال البسيطة والكُرِيّة
- Latin title
- Liber trium fratrum de geometria; also Verba filiorum Moysi filii Sekir
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