Download or read book Euclid's Book on Division of Figures written by Raymond Clare Archibald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1915, this book contains an English translation of a reconstructed version of Euclid's study of divisions of geometric figures, which survives only partially and in only one Arabic manuscript. Archibald also gives an introduction to the text, its transmission in an Arabic version and its possible connection with Fibonacci's Practica geometriae. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Greek mathematics, the history of science or the reconstruction of ancient texts.