Al-Hajjaj

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue 1
4. I: AUTHOR
5. Alexandria 7
6. Elephantine 18
7. Hypsicles 26
8. Theon of Alexandria 31
9. Stephanos the scribe 39
10. Al-Hajjaj 48
11. Adelard 56
12. Erhard Ratdolt 65
13. Marget Seymer her hand 75
14. Edward Bernard 81
15. Interlude 91
16. II: SAGE
17. Plato 95
18. Proclus Diadochus 102
19. Hroswitha of Gandersheim 107
20. Rabbi Levi ben Gershom 114
21. Christoph Clavius 123
22. Xu Guangqi 133
23. Blame not our author 145
24. Baruch Spinoza 151
25. Anne Lister 161
26. Interlude 169
27. III: HERO
28. Petechonsis 173
29. Dividing the monochord 179
30. Hyginus 186
31. Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani 193
32. Lady Geometria 202
33. Piero della Francesca 212
34. Euclid Speidell 225
35. Isaac Newton 230
36. Interlude 237
37. IV: SHADOW AND MASK
38. Mary Fairfax 241
39. François Peyrard 249
40. Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii 260
41. Maggie and Tom 269
42. Simson in Urdu 278
43. His modern rivals 285
44. Thomas Little Heath 291
45. Max Ernst 300
46. Euclidean designs 306
47. Lambda 316
48. Epilogue 322
49. Acknowledgements 325
50. Image Credits 327
51. Notes on Sources 331
52. Select Bibliography 355
53. Index 389