{"id":72,"date":"2014-09-30T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T21:28:48","slug":"early-history-of-geometry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/early-history-of-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Early History of Geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Allman, George Johnston,\u00a0Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid<\/i>, p 18-51, QA22.A43<\/li>\n
  2. Berggren, J.L.\u00a0Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam<\/i>, Springer-Verlag 1986.<\/li>\n
  3. Brunes, Tons,\u00a0The Secrets of Ancient Geometry and Its Use<\/i>, NC40.B713<\/li>\n
  4. Campell & Higgins, ed.,\u00a0Mathematics: People, Problems, Results<\/i>, Vol I.<\/li>\n
  5. Dantzig, Tobias,\u00a0The Bequest of the Greeks<\/i>: p 22-23, 60-67, QA22.D3<\/li>\n
  6. Doxiadis, C.A.,\u00a0Architectural Space in Ancient Greece<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. Dunham, William,\u00a0Journey Through Genius<\/i>\u00a0QA21.D78<\/li>\n
  8. Eves, Howard W.,\u00a0A Survey of Geometry<\/i>, (Rev. Ed) p 9-13, QA445.E92<\/li>\n
  9. Eves, Howard,\u00a0Introduction to the History of Mathematics<\/i><\/li>\n
  10. Gow, James,\u00a0A Short History of Greek Mathematics<\/i>, p 66-72, 147-158, QA22.G7<\/li>\n
  11. Heath, Sir Thomas,\u00a0A History of Greek Mathematics<\/i>, p 65-117, 141-169, QA22.H4 (vol. 1)<\/li>\n
  12. Heilbron, J.L.,\u00a0Geometry Civilized. History, Culture, and Technique.<\/i>\u00a0Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998. Contains wonderful artistic and historic illustrations.<\/li>\n
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  17. Lawlor, Robert,\u00a0Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice<\/i><\/li>\n
  18. Maziarz, Edward and Greenwood, Thomas,\u00a0Greek Mathematical Philosophy<\/i>\u00a0QA22.M38<\/li>\n
  19. Meiggs, Russell,\u00a0Roman Ostia<\/i>\u00a0DG70.08N4<\/li>\n
  20. Mikami,\u00a0The Development of Mathematics in China and Japan<\/i>, Chelsea 1974.<\/li>\n
  21. Morrow, Glenn R.;\u00a0Proclus: A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements\u00a0<\/i>, Princeton 1970.<\/li>\n
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  23. O’Shea, Thomas,\u00a0Geometric Transformations and Musical Compositions<\/i>, The Math Teacher, Oct. `79<\/li>\n
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  25. Shiran, Du & Li Yan,\u00a0Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History<\/i>, Clarendon 1987.<\/li>\n
  26. Straffin, Philip D. Jr.; “Liu Hui and the First Golden Age of Chinese Mathematics,”\u00a0Mathematics Magazine<\/i>, June 1998, p 163-181.<\/li>\n
  27. Swetz, Frank,\u00a0Was Phythagoras Chinese?: An examination of right triangle theory in ancient China<\/i>\u00a0QA27.C5<\/li>\n
  28. Taylor, Thomas, translated from the Greek\u00a0Jambichus Life of Pythagoras<\/i>, or\u00a0Phythagoric Life<\/i>, the whole book but especially pages 320-328, B243.J2<\/li>\n
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    Allman, George Johnston,\u00a0Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid, p 18-51, QA22.A43 Berggren, J.L.\u00a0Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, Springer-Verlag 1986. Brunes, Tons,\u00a0The Secrets of Ancient Geometry and Its Use, NC40.B713 Campell & Higgins, ed.,\u00a0Mathematics: People, Problems, Results, Vol I. Dantzig, Tobias,\u00a0The Bequest of the Greeks: p 22-23, 60-67, QA22.D3 Doxiadis, C.A.,\u00a0Architectural Space in Ancient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/cederj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}