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This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text
of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical
mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd
century CE until the early modern period. Accompanied by an
introduction to the life and works of Theodosios and a
contextualization of his Spherics among other works of Greek
mathematics and astronomy, the translation is followed by a
detailed commentary, and an accessible English paraphrase
accompanied with mathematically generated diagrams. The volume has
a broad appeal to both general and specialist readers who do not
read ancient Greek – allowing readers to understand the
mathematical and astronomical principles and methods used by
ancient and medieval readers of this important text. The paraphrase
with its mathematical diagrams will be useful for readers with a
scientific and mathematical background. This study of one of the
canonical mathematical and astronomical texts of the ancient
Greco-Roman, classical Islamic, and medieval Christian worlds
provides an invaluable resource for historians of science,
astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and
medieval periods.
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