Mathematical diagrams from manuscript to print: examples from the Arabic Euclidean transmission

DOI10.1007/S11229-012-0070-6zbMATH Open1274.01014OpenAlexW2058921926MaRDI QIDQ375268FDOQ375268

Authors: Gregg De Young 

Publication date: 29 October 2013

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0070-6

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zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean geometryArabic mathematics manuscriptsArabic printed mathematicsgeometrical diagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of geometry (51-03) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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