Pappus

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The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793

Pappus cites the solution to the duplication of the cube as one of the three most crucial geometrical theorems for practical mechanics

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

Pappus (AD 320) refers to machines used to lift great weights, machines of war such as the catapult, water lifting machines, amazing devices (automata), and machines that served as models of the heavens

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

Pappus emphasizes, however, that, in addition to this practical part of mechanics, there is a theoretical part that is heavily mathematical

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

Pappus, 1876-78, Pappi Alexandrini collectionis quae supersunt, F. Hultsch (ed.), Berlin: Weidmann.

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

In Pappus 'later version of the story, the person who first spread knowledge of the existence of the irrational was punished by drowning (Junge and Thomson 1930, 63-64).

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

But Pappus, a certain historian whose history was recovered by Hermippus, says, that as he fell near the altar, there was found in his scroll this beginning only of a letter, and nothing more, “Demosthenes to Antipater.”

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

In his analysis of a problem posed by the ancient Greek Pappus, Descartes wrote that “it already wearies me to write so much about it.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

In his analysis of a problem posed by the ancient Greek Pappus, Descartes wrote that “it already wearies me to write so much about it.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

In his analysis of a problem posed by the ancient Greek Pappus, Descartes wrote that “it already wearies me to write so much about it.”

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001