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Encounters with Euclid
This chapter is in the book Encounters with Euclid
© 2021 Princeton University Press, Princeton

© 2021 Princeton University Press, Princeton

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
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691219813-fm

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
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