by the late Sir Gerald Portal ; edited, with a memoir by Rennell Rodd, with the diary of the late Captain Raymond Portal and an introduction by... Show moreby the late Sir Gerald Portal ; edited, with a memoir by Rennell Rodd, with the diary of the late Captain Raymond Portal and an introduction by Lord Cromer ; illustrated from photographs by Colonel Rhodes. Show less
ex Arabico msto Latine versi; Accedunt ejusdem De sectione spatii libri duo restituti. ... Præmittitur Pappi Alexandrini præfatio ad VIImum... Show moreex Arabico msto Latine versi; Accedunt ejusdem De sectione spatii libri duo restituti. ... Præmittitur Pappi Alexandrini præfatio ad VIImum collectionis mathematicæ, nunc primum Græce edita: ... Opera & studio Edmundi Halley ... APOLLONIUS of Perga. De sectione rationis libri duo ex Arabico MSto Latine versi. Accedunt ejusdem de sectione spatii libri duo restituti ... praemittitur Pappi Alexandini praefatio ad VIImum collectionis mathematicae, nunc primum Graece edita: cum lemmatibus ejusdem Pappi ad hos Apollonii libros. Opera & studio Edmundi Halley. Oxford Sheldonian Theatre, 1706. 8vo in half sheets, 1lea. + 2 + 1 tit. + 1 ded. + 1 + 6 pref. + 53 + 1 + 168 + 2 + 1lea, the text of Pappus printed in Greek, title of the Arabic manuscript printed in Arabic, with numerous woodcut diagrams in the text; a very good copy in contemporary panelled calf. First edition of Halley's translation of Apollonius's "Cutting-off of a ratio" from an Arabic manuscript. This text of Apollonius, like Books V-VII of the Conics (previous book) survives only in Arabic, and in this case the Arabic remains unpublished. "Much of Halley's scholarship was exercised upon the works of Apollonius of Perga, one of the greatest mathematicians of antiquity, and indeed of all time, who flourished in the latter part of the third century B. C. One of his minor works, Sectio rationis (Cutting-off of a ratio), an exercise in geometrical algebra, was thought to be lost until an Arabic translation of it was found among the Selden manuscripts in the Bodleian and identified by Edward Bernard, the Savillian Professor of Astronomy. Bernard set about translating it into Latin; but the manuscript was very defective and he soon laid the task aside. His successor, David Gregory, made a fair copy of the original for the use of Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, at whose invitation Halley, upon succeeding Wallis in the Savillian Chair of Geometry, undertook to complete the translation. He had never previously studied Arabic; but using as a key the few passages translated by Bernard, he eventuaqlly made out the meaning of the text. He proceeded to restore the lost companion tract, Sectio spatii, following hints from Pappus. He gave his reasons for regarding the works as genuine; and he included in his edition the earliest printed Greek text of Pappus's preface to the seventh book of his Synagoge (Collection)" (Angus Armitage, Edmond Halley, p. 160). Carter, 1706, I; ESTC 128712. Main Heritage Shelves General QA31 .A66 1706 Book Item-ID: i10056403 BIB-ID: 1007276 Show less
Ueber den Gebrauch des äussern Plurals masc. in den südsemitischen Sprachen.--Über und im Sabäischen. von David Heinrich Müller. Show moreUeber den Gebrauch des äussern Plurals masc. in den südsemitischen Sprachen.--Über und im Sabäischen. von David Heinrich Müller. Show less
Main Heritage Compact General PJ6151 .D54 1886 Book Item-ID: i10071659 BIB-ID: 1008801 Show moreMain Heritage Compact General PJ6151 .D54 1886 Book Item-ID: i10071659 BIB-ID: 1008801 Show less
By Étienne Félix Berlioux ... From the French. With a preface by Joseph Cooper. Translated from the French. Show moreBy Étienne Félix Berlioux ... From the French. With a preface by Joseph Cooper. Translated from the French. Show less
Surgery, Surgery--Early works to 1800, RD30 .Z34 1778
Albucasis ; cura Johannis Channing. Parallel Arabic and Latin texts. Show moreAlbucasis ; cura Johannis Channing. Parallel Arabic and Latin texts. Show less
World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Palestine, Description and travel, DS107.3 .T46 1929, 915.69
with illustrations from sketches by C.E. Hughes. At head of title: Edward Thompson. Show morewith illustrations from sketches by C.E. Hughes. At head of title: Edward Thompson. Show less
"Anhang: Textkritische beiträge zu Ibn-Ḥazms Ṭauq al-ḥamāma": p. [233]-238. Main Heritage Shelves General HQ19 .I214 1942 Book Item-ID: i10099608 BIB-ID... Show more"Anhang: Textkritische beiträge zu Ibn-Ḥazms Ṭauq al-ḥamāma": p. [233]-238. Main Heritage Shelves General HQ19 .I214 1942 Book Item-ID: i10099608 BIB-ID: 1011596 Show less
