The Treasury of Mathematics: A Collection of Source Material Edited and Presented with Introductory Biographical and Historical Sketches.
- Author / Editor
- Midonick, Henrietta O., ed.
The Treasury of Mathematics: A Collection of Source Material Edited and Presented with Introductory Biographical and Historical Sketches.
- Published
- New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
- Physical Description
- xxi, 820 pp.; b&w figs. & illus.
- Description
- Anthologizes 54 selections and excerpts from the history of mathematics and related sciences from around the world, ranging widely in date from classics to the nineteenth century. Includes a selection (pp. 220-42) of a modernization of Astr, from R. T. Gunther's version (1929), with illustrations and supplementary material. The brief sketch of Chaucer's life and Astr (pp. 219-20) characterizes the latter as "still . . . a standard work on the construction and the uses of the astrolabe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
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