Medieval Hebrew Texts on the Quadrature
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Y.Tzvi Langermann
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Hippocrates' successful quadrature of the lune was one of the earliest achievements of Greek geometry. Our only source for the nature of Hippocrates' work is Simplicius, who comments on Artistotle's remark that the inference from the quadrature of the lune to the quadrature of the circle is an examp