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Mathematics - History

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Images from the collections

Images about Mathematics - History

2 images from works
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • The castle of knowledge, flanked by the spheres of destiny and fortune. Woodcut, 1556.

Works from the collections

33 works

    • Books

    Isʹhām ʻulamāʼ al-Muslimīn fī al-riyāḍīyāt / taʼlīf ʻAlī ʻAbd Allāh al-Daffāʻ ; taʻrīb wa-taʻlīq Jalāl Shawqī.

    | Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa | Date: 1981
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    Compass and rule : architecture as mathematical practice in England, 1500-1750 / Anthony Gerbino and Stephen Johnston ; with a contribution by Gordon Higgott.

    | Gerbino, Anthony | Date: [2009]
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    La historia de la ciencia en la II república Española : Francisco Vera Fernández de Córdoba (1931-1939) / José M. Cobos Bueno.

    | José M. Cobos Bueno | Date: 2002
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    Most honourable remembrance : the life and work of Thomas Bayes / Andrew I. Dale.

    | Dale, Andrew I. | Date: [2003]
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    Fārsīʹnāmah : dar sharḥ-i aḥvāl va ā sār-i Kamāl al-Dīn Fārsī ... va barŕasī-i shahkār-i riyāzī-i tadhkirat al-Aḥbāb fī bayān al-taḥābb / pizhūhish va nigārish-i Abū al-Qāsim Qurbānī.

    | Qurbānī, Abū al-Qāsim. | Date: 1984
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