Contributions to the history of science
By: by Louis Karpinski and John Garrett Winter.
Contributors: Khuwārizmī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, fl. 813-846.; Robert, of Chester, fl. 1143, tr.; Karpinski, Louis Charles, 1878-1956, ed. and tr.; Steno, Nicolaus, 1638-1686.; Winter, John Garrett, 1881-1956, ed. and tr.
Series: University of Michigan studies. Humanistic series,; v. 11
Publisher: University of Michigan
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Science -- History.; Science -- Early works to 1800.; Mathematics, Arab.; Paleontology -- Early works to 1800.; Crystallography.
Notes: Each part also published separately, 1915 and 1916 respectively.
Table of contents: title: pt.I. Robert of Chester's Latin translation of the Algebra of al-Khowarizmi [with an introduction, critical notes and an English version by L.C. Karpinski]; title: pt.II. The prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's dissertation concerning a solid body enclosed by process of nature within a solid: an English version with an introduction and explanatory notes [by J.G. Winter] with a foreword by W.H. Hobbs. The writings of Steno (p. 188-193) Bibliography of the prodromus (p. 194-203)