Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

8/1/1986 - 9/30/1988

Funding Totals

$33,000.00 (approved)
$30,000.00 (awarded)


An English Translation of Appollonius Pergaeus ON CUTTING-OFF A RATIO

FAIN: RL-20907-86

E.M. Macierowski
Catholic University of America (Washington, DC 20064-0001)

To support the edition and translation from medieval Arabic of the lost Greek treatise PERI LOGOU APOTOMES (On Cutting Off a Ratio) by Appollonius Pergaeus (c. 210 B.C.), a mathematician in the Euclidean tradition whose analytic methodwas surpassed only by Descartes in the 17th century.





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Thomas Aquinas's earliest treatment of the divine essence : Scriptum super libros Sententiarum, Book I, Distinction 8 (Book)
Title: Thomas Aquinas's earliest treatment of the divine essence : Scriptum super libros Sententiarum, Book I, Distinction 8
Author: Macierowski, E.M.
Year: 1997
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9781883058227
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Binghamton University (State University of New York)
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781883058227