Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato
San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf, 1979. Diagrams, tables, figures in text, endpaper maps. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 174 pages.
Most works of Theon of Smyrna were lost, but this important survivor is an introductory survey to Greek mathematics and a valuable compilation of mathematical ideas known to the ancient Greeks. The work includes sections on arithmetic, numerical laws of music, medians and figures, quaternaries and decads, and more. A section on astronomy describes the spherical form of the earth, movements of other planets, etc.
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