Alternative route: from van Schooten to Ptolemy

zbMATH Open1188.51001MaRDI QIDQ3552020FDOQ3552020

Authors: Andrew Percy, Douglas G. Rogers 

Publication date: 19 April 2010

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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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• On the ratio of diagonals in an inscribed quadrilateral, or An analogue of the Ptolemy theorem

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