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...irteen books, of which only six survive, was the first on the subject. The Latin translation (A.D. 1621) of this suggestive fragment directly inspired [[Pie * '''No one has yet translated from the Greek into Latin the thirteen books of Diophantus, in which the very flower of the whole of ...

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...ments—[[Mercury (element)|mercury]], sulphur, and salt—is adapted from old authors, but he was the first to use the word "[[w:Alkahest|alcahest]]" to indicate ...copper turns into... {{w|copper sulfide}} ...a black crumbly solid. ...The Latin [derived from ''sulvere''] ...becomes ''sulphur''. ...

...rote an arithmetic based upon these numerals, and this was translated into Latin'''...<!--p. 97--> ...ical office, so that priests and monks were not infrequently skilled... in Latin and Arabic, acting as official translators... [W]hile it lasted the learnin ...

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...road, trail, track" here takes the more specific sense of "short cut". The Latin translation is by Francesco Barozzi, 1560). * The authors on {{w|Trigonometry}} may be divided into... theoretical and practical... [ ...

...estined to remain merely monuments of the ingenuity and acuteness of their authors, or are to become mighty instruments in the investigation of old and the di ...vokes air and the elements, "which in quaternion run." The word (like, the Latin "quaternio," from which it is derived) means simply a ''set of four'', whet ...

...it shall be the more common, I thought good heretofore, to set forth''' in Latin '''for the public use of mathematicians.'''<!--pp.381-382--> ...ate the progress of discovery, and to anticipate what time, "the author of authors," would have gradually brought to light. '''Though logarithms''' had not be ...

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...and Greek texts led to trigonometry being adopted as a subject in the {{w|Latin West}} beginning in the [[Renaissance]] with {{w|Regiomontanus}}. ...gebraic treatise which went as far as quadratic equations: translated into Latin in the sixteenth century, it became a primer for the West. Later, Muslim ma ...

* The basic idea... is straightforward and... has led other authors, such as [[Enrico Fermi|Fermi]]... [[Freeman Dyson|Dyson]]... [[Michael H. ...d. In classical Greek, the word ''prosopon'' (πρόσωπον)—''persona'' is the Latin equivalent—primarily meant "face" or "[[wikt:countenance#Noun|countenance]] ...

* The Latin word for [[tin]] was ''stannum''; it was also known as ''plumbum album'', i * ''Molybdena'', which was the Latin name for '''{{w|litharge}}, was employed externally as an {{w|astringent}} ...

...Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science]]'' (1925) citing the Latin source by Christian Frisch, ed., ''Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia'' [[Category:Latin authors]] ...

...posed that [[w:Hypsicles|Hypsicles]] and [[w:Damascius|Damascius]] are the authors. The first four books are on plane geometry. The fifth book treats of the t ...10 Halley of Oxford published the Greek text of the first four books and a Latin translation of the remaining three, together with his conjectural restorati ...

...ts length and of its form, either to read it in its original Greek or in a Latin translation, or, having read it, to master it and grasp the whole scheme of ...ce throughout Europe, to reduce the rules of Arithmetic, like these of the Latin Grammar, to memorial verses. A small tract composed on that plan, in the re ...

* In the hands of a Feynman the [variational] technique works like a Latin charm; with ordinary mortals the result is a mixed bag. [[Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States]] ...

** ''[[1 Esdras]]'' 4:33 - 41; this is often quoted in the Latin: ''Magna est veritas et praevalet.'' ...taste, and are equally useful to beginners with the writings of different authors upon the same subject. ...