Alternative route: from van Schooten to Ptolemy

MaRDI QIDQ3552020zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andrew Percy, Douglas G. Rogers

Publication date 19 April 2010

zbMATH Keywords

history of mathematicsPtolemy's theoremhistorical surveydistance problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of geometry (51-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

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