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... translated by W. M. GIL- LESPIE . 16. HANKEL , HERMANN . Die Entwickelung der Mathematik in den letz- ten Jahrhunderten . Tübingen , 1884 . 17. GÜNTHER , SIEGMUND und WINDELBAND , W. Geschichte der antiken Naturwissenschaft und ...
... translated by W. M. GIL- LESPIE . 16. HANKEL , HERMANN . Die Entwickelung der Mathematik in den letz- ten Jahrhunderten . Tübingen , 1884 . 17. GÜNTHER , SIEGMUND und WINDELBAND , W. Geschichte der antiken Naturwissenschaft und ...
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... Translated by B. POWELL , Smithsonian Report , 1874 . 52. BEAUMONT , M. Élie de . " Memoir of Legendre . " Translated by C. A. ALEXANDER , Smithsonian Report , 1867 . 53. ARAGO , D. F. J. " Joseph Fourier . " Smithsonian Report , 1871 ...
... Translated by B. POWELL , Smithsonian Report , 1874 . 52. BEAUMONT , M. Élie de . " Memoir of Legendre . " Translated by C. A. ALEXANDER , Smithsonian Report , 1867 . 53. ARAGO , D. F. J. " Joseph Fourier . " Smithsonian Report , 1871 ...
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... Translated into English by M. W. Harrington and W. J. Hussey . 94. HERMITE , CH . " Discours prononcé devant le président de la Répu- blique , " Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques , XIV . , Janvier , 1890 . 95. SCHUSTER , ARTHUR ...
... Translated into English by M. W. Harrington and W. J. Hussey . 94. HERMITE , CH . " Discours prononcé devant le président de la Répu- blique , " Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques , XIV . , Janvier , 1890 . 95. SCHUSTER , ARTHUR ...
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... translated by Oppert : - " To the King , my lord , thy faithful servant , Mar - Istar . " " ... On the first day , as the new moon's day of the month Tham- muz declined , the moon was again visible over the planet Mercury , as I had ...
... translated by Oppert : - " To the King , my lord , thy faithful servant , Mar - Istar . " " ... On the first day , as the new moon's day of the month Tham- muz declined , the moon was again visible over the planet Mercury , as I had ...
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... translated it into Latin . Lucian could pay no higher compliment to a calculator than this : " You reckon like Nicomachus of Gerasa . " The Introductio Arithmetica was the first exhaustive work in which arithmetic was treated quite ...
... translated it into Latin . Lucian could pay no higher compliment to a calculator than this : " You reckon like Nicomachus of Gerasa . " The Introductio Arithmetica was the first exhaustive work in which arithmetic was treated quite ...
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