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Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. 28 pages (pag. 27-54), pencil note with date of receipt (written by Paul Kunitzsch) on cover, otherwise fine; orig. stapled offprint from: The Legacy of Egypt (Oxford ²1971, edited by John Richard Harris). - - Contents: I. Mathematics. - II. Astronomy. - Bibliography.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - With the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub lish the /llost books' of the Conics of Apollonius in the form which is the closest we have to the original, the Arabic version of the Banu Musil. Un til now this has been accessible only in Halley's Latin translation of 1710 (and translations into other languages entirely dependent on that). While I yield to none in my admiration for Halley's edition of the Conics, it is far from satisfying the requirements of modern scholarship. In particular, it does not contain the Arabic text. I hope that the present edition will not only remedy those deficiencies, but will also serve as a foundation for the study of the influence of the Conics in the medieval Islamic world. I acknowledge with gratitude the help of a number of institutions and people. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, by the award of one of its Fellowships for 1985-86, enabled me to devote an unbroken year to this project, and to consult essential material in the Bodleian Li brary, Oxford, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Corpus Christi Col lege, Cambridge, appointed me to a Visiting Fellowship in Trinity Term, 1988, which allowed me to make good use of the rich resources of both the University Library, Cambridge, and the Bodleian Library.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - With the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub lish the /llost books' of the Conics of Apollonius in the form which is the closest we have to the original, the Arabic version of the Banu Musil. Un til now this has been accessible only in Halley's Latin translation of 1710 (and translations into other languages entirely dependent on that). While I yield to none in my admiration for Halley's edition of the Conics, it is far from satisfying the requirements of modern scholarship. In particular, it does not contain the Arabic text. I hope that the present edition will not only remedy those deficiencies, but will also serve as a foundation for the study of the influence of the Conics in the medieval Islamic world. I acknowledge with gratitude the help of a number of institutions and people. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, by the award of one of its Fellowships for 1985-86, enabled me to devote an unbroken year to this project, and to consult essential material in the Bodleian Li brary, Oxford, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Corpus Christi Col lege, Cambridge, appointed me to a Visiting Fellowship in Trinity Term, 1988, which allowed me to make good use of the rich resources of both the University Library, Cambridge, and the Bodleian Library.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 70 p. : illustrated ; 30 cm. ; Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; new ser., v. 64, pt. 7; ISBN: 0871696479; 9780871696472 Series ISSN: 0065-9746 LCCN: 74-84369 ; OCLC: 1206259 ; LC: QB107; Q11; Dewey: 681/.111 ; paper wrapp ers ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; Contents: The discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck -- The discovery of the mechanism fragments -- Research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-1973 -- The casing, general construction and dial work -- T he arrangement in depth of the plates and components of the mechanism -- The door plates and the general orientation and use of the mechanism -- The accuracy of estimating gear teeth numbers -- Description of individual gears -- Description of gear trains -- The inscriptions -- The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document -- The early history of gearing and clockwork -- The invention of complicated clockwork and the differential gear -- Composition of the metal fragments, with contributions / Earle R Caley and Cyril S. Smith -- Technical note on radiography of fragments / Char. Karakalos. ; numerous photographs and diagrams ; FINE. Book.