Hellenistic · Greek
Elements
The axiomatic compilation of Greek geometry, read in Arabic before Europe read it in Greek; the atlas traces that journey. In English translation from the Perseus Digital Library. Translated by Thomas Little Heath.
chapters
13 chaptersin the atlas
fully mappedFigures— 10 of 24
Suidas · Allman · Apollonius · Archimedes · Aristaeus · Bretschneider · Cantor · Cavalieri · Democritus · Eratosthenes
Ideas— 10 of 178
Apotome · Binomial straight line · Rational straight line · Medial straight line · Cube number · Solid number · Commensurability · Extreme and mean ratio · First bimedial straight line · Minor straight line
Groups— 1
Events— 10 of 21
Medial area subtracted from a rational area · Application of areas · Continual subtraction · Euclidean algorithm · Incommensurable medial area subtracted from a medial area · Proposition IV.1 · Proposition IV.10 (constructing the golden-gnomon isosceles triangle) · Proposition IV.11 (inscribing a regular pentagon in a circle) · Proposition IV.12 (circumscribing a regular pentagon about a circle) · Proposition IV.13 (inscribing a circle in a regular pentagon)
Objects— 10 of 80
Sphere · Cube · Pyramid · Triangle ABC · A · B · C · Circle · D · Dodecahedron
421 citations · 169 themes · 430 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.
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