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The Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz
This is the second and final volume of Dutch physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz's scientific correspondence with Dutch colleagues, including Pieter Zeeman and Paul Ehrenfest. These …
Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics
Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, of which four have come down to us in their original Greek …
The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with …
Sanskrit Astronomical Tables
This groundbreaking volume provides an up-to-date, accessible guide to Sanskrit astronomical tables and their analysis. It begins with an overview of Indian mathematical astronomy …
Jaghmini’s Mulakhkha?
This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Ma?mud al-Jaghmini’s al-Mulakhkha? fi al-hay?a al-basi?a, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on …
The Rise and Development of the Theory of Series up to the Early 1820s
The theory of series in the 17th and 18th centuries poses several interesting problems to historians. Indeed, mathematicians of the time derived num- ous results that range from …
Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the …
James Stirling’s Methodus Differentialis
James Stirling's "Methodus Differentialis" is one of the early classics of numerical analysis. It contains not only the results and ideas for which Stirling is chiefly remembered, …
Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie
Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 – ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known as De practica geometrie. …
Simson on Porisms
Most mathematicians' knowledge of Euclid's lost work on Porisms comes from a very brief and general description by Pappus of Alexandria. While Fermat and others made earlier …
MacLaurin's Physical Dissertations
This book presents important works by the Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), translated in English for the first time. It includes three of the mathematician's …
Bhaskara-prabha
This book covers the works of Bhaskara, in particular, his monumental treatise on astronomy, the Siddhantasiroma?i, his astronomical handbook, the Kara?akutuhala, and his two …