On a medieval circle quadrature: De circulo quadrando (Q807608)

Among several treatments of circle quadrature known from the Middle Ages there are three, i.e. the ``Florence versions'', the Quelibet media proportionalia and the revised circle quadrature (De circulo quandrando) which the author of the paper under review assigns to one person: John of London. In his paper the author discusses the text of the two last-named versions, their relation to each other, and the question of their authorship. I do not endorse some of his arguments. His assertion, for instance, that throughout the Communia mathematica Roger Bacon draws almost exclusively from the ``editio specialis Alardi Batoniensis'' for his citations of Euclid, is very unlikely. Bacon borrowed, for instance, verbatim the proofs of V. 7 (Steele 1940, 127.12-128.5) and of V.8 (Steele 1940, 128.6-129.22) from Campanus. Therefore, it is much more likely, that Bacon borrowed also his citations of Euclid from Campanus, and not from Version III.