Volume 2 of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and features every landmark innovation and every important figure, includi

Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century develo

Published in 1932, this collection of translated excerpts on ancient astronomy was prepared by Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940).