✦ LIBER ✦
Did Euclid's Circles Have Two Kinds of Radius?
✍ Scribed by David Fowler; Chr.Marinus Taisbak
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0315-0860
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✦ Synopsis
It is often asserted that Euclid had no single word for "radius," but rather used the description "the line drawn from the center." We examine the linguistic practice of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius and find that it is more subtle than that. C 1999 Academic Press Il est souvent dit qu'Euclide n'avait pas de mot pour "rayon," et qu'à sa place il se servait de la description "la ligne tracée à partir du centre." Nous examinons ici la pratique linguistique d'Euclide, Archimède, et Apollonius, pour montrer que celle-ci est plus subtile que cela.