The series Scientia Graeco-Arabica is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts ...

The treatise De Rationis Sectione by Apollonius of Perge, which deals with a unique and difficult...

Until recently, only six of thirteen books comprising Diophantus Arithmetica were known to us. Fo...

Despite its importance in the history of Ancient science, Menelaus Spherics is still by and large...

The first three books of the Conica deals with the basic elements of the theory of conical sectio...

From Antiquity until recently, philosophers and mathematicians have continually discussed the con...

Book IV of the Konika consists of two parts; the first presents a theory of poles and polars, the...

Thabit ibn Qurra (826-901) was one of historys most original thinkers and displayed expertise in ...

This is the first study of the history of Diophantine analysis and the theory of numbers from Abu...

Die Abhandlung über Kegelschnitte (Conica) des Apollonius aus Perge gilt als ein Gipfelpunkt der ...

Book VI of the Konika is essentially devoted to the question of the identity and similarity of tw...

With the fifth book of the Konika ancient mathematics reached a climax. In it Apollonius presents...