Theodosii Sphaerica

A rare and valuable work on ancient Greek mathematics and astronomy, Theodosii Sphaerica is a treatise on the geometry of the sphere and its applications to astronomical theory. The work is attributed to Theodosius of Bithynia, a Greek mathematician who lived in the first century BC, and was later revised and expanded by scholars in late antiquity and the Byzantine era. This edition includes a Latin translation of the original Greek text, along with notes and commentaries by Isaac Barrow, a seventeenth-century mathematician and theologian. This book will interest mathematicians, astronomers, and historians of ancient Greek science and philosophy.

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