Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1 Of 2: From Thales to Euclid (Classic Reprint)

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In a strictly logical arrangement the passages would, no doubt, be grouped wholly by subjects or by persons. But such an arrangement would not be satisfactory. I imagine that the average reader would like to see, for example, all the passages on the squaring of the circle together, but would also like to see the varied discoveries of Archimedes in a Single section. The arrangement here adopted is a compromise for which I must ask the reader's indulgence where he might himself have made a different grouping. The contributions of the Greeks to arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, mensuration and algebra are noticed as fully as possible, but astronomy and music, though included by the Greeks under the name mathematics, have had to be almost wholly excluded.

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