: Barnabas Hughes
: Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387729312
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: CHF 107.40
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
: 412
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Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 - ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known as De Practica Geometrie. This translation offers a reconstruction of De Practica Geometrie as the author judges Fibonacci wrote it, thereby correcting inaccuracies found in numerous modern histories. It is a high quality translation with supplemental text to explain text that has been more freely translated. A bibliography of primary and secondary resources follows the translation, completed by an index of names and special words.

Foreword7
Preface9
Table of Contents11
Notation15
Background16
FIBONACCI S KNOWLEDGE OF ARABIC17
FIBONACCI S SCHOOLING20
FIBONACCI S BASIC RESOURCES21
LIST OF PROBABLE SOURCES23
SOURCES FOR THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION25
THE TRANSLATION27
ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS29
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL30
CONCLUSION33
Prologue and Introduction35
COMMENTARY35
SOURCES37
PROLOGUE AND INTRODUCTION38
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL39
1 Measuring Areas of Rectangular Fields44
COMMENTARY44
SOURCES46
TEXT47
METHOD 259
2 Finding Roots of Numbers67
COMMENTARY67
TEXT70
3 Measuring All Kinds of Fields89
COMMENTARY89
SOURCES95
TEXT97
4 Dividing Fields Among Partners212
COMMENTARY212
SOURCE215
TEXT216
5 Finding Cube Roots285
COMMENTARY285
SOURCES288
TEXT289
6 Finding Dimensions of Bodies305
COMMENTARY305
SOURCES307
TEXT307
7 Measuring Heights, Depths, and Longitude of Planets373
COMMENTARY373
SOURCE375
TEXT376
8 Geometric Subtleties390
COMMENTARY390
SOURCES392
TEXT394
Appendix Indeterminate Problems with Several Answers424
COMMENTARY424
SOURCE424
TEXT425
Bibliography428
Index of Proper Names and Terms436