Mathematical Treasures - Nasir al-din al-Tusi's Commentary on Euclid's Elements

Nasīr al-dīn al-Ṭūsī (1201 – 1274) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician.  He is noted for writing the first major work on pure trigonometry as well as for his commentaries on Greek works.  This is a page from a later Arabic edition of his commentary on Euclid’s Elements, a page dealing with Euclid's method of exhaustion.

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