On the Measurement of the Circle (transl. GC) – Latin
- Title (Arabic):
- في مساحة الدائرة – Fī Misāḥat al-dāʾira (or: Fī Taksīr al-dāʾira)
- Title (English):
- On the Measurement of the Circle (or: On the Division of the Circle)
- Title (Latin):
- De mensura circuli
- Author:
- Archimedes.
- Translation:
- Gerard of Cremona.
- Transcribed from:
- Archimedes, De mensura circuli, in: Marshall Clagett, ed., Archimedes in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1: The Arabo-Latin Tradition (Madison, 1964), pp. 40–54.
- Additional sources:
[MS Paris, BnF, lat. 9335]: MS Paris, BnF, lat. 9335. Online at https:// https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107211500.
- Transcribed by:
- Carolin Helmer.
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Contents
- De Mensura Circuli Liber Arsamithis de mensura circuli.
- I. OMNIS CIRCULUS TRIANGULO ORTHOGONIO EST EQUALIS, CUIUS UNUM DUORUM LATERUM RECITUM CONTINENTIUM ANGULUM MEDIETATI DIAMEITRI CIRCULI EQUATUR ET ALTERUM IPSORUM LINEE CIRCU LUM CONTINENTI.
- II. PROPORTIO AREE OMNIS CIRCULI AD QUADRATUM DIAMETRI IPSIUS EST SICUT PROPORITIO 11 AD 14.
- III. OMNIS LINEA CONTINENS CIRCULUM ADDIT SUPER TRIPLUM DIAMETRI IPISIUS MINUS SEPTIMA ET PLUS 10 PARTIBUS 71 PARITIUM DIAMETRI.