Euclid's Phaenomena : a translation and study of a hellenistic treatise in spherical astronomy
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Euclid's Phaenomena : a translation and study of a hellenistic treatise in spherical astronomy
（Sources and studies in the history and philosophy of classical science, 4）
Garland Pub., 1996
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Phaenomena
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-125) and indexes
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The first modern English translation of Euclid's pioneering application of spherical geometry to astronomy. Though the 4th-century BC Greek treatise was soon superseded by better astronomy, it continued to be transmitted through the Islamic and Latin Middle Ages into the Renaissance as an introduct
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