On the Measurement of the Circle (transl. anon.) – 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):
- In quadratum circuli
- Author:
- Archimedes.
- Translation:
- anonymous.
- Transcribed from:
- Archimedes, In quadratum circuli, in: Marshall Clagett, ed., Archimedes in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1: The Arabo-Latin Tradition (Madison, 1964), pp. 20–26.
- Additional sources:
[MS Paris, BnF, lat. 11246]: MS Paris, BnF, lat. 11246. Online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90776934.
- Transcribed by:
- Carolin Helmer.
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Contents
- In Quadratum Circuli In nomine domini misericordis et miseratoris, incipit liber Ersemidis in quadratum circuli.
- ⟨I.⟩ OMNIS CIRCULUS TRIANGULO ORTOGONIO, CUIUS UNUM EX DUOBUS LATERIBUS RECTO ADIACENTIBUS ANGULO DIMIDIO DIAMETRI EIUSDEM CIRCULI, ALTERUM VERO LATUS LINEE CIRCUMFERENTI EQUATUR, EXISTIT EQUALIS.
- ⟨II.⟩ PROPORTIO AREE OMNIS CIRCULI AD QUADRATUM SUI DIAMETRI EST UT PROPORITIO 11 AD 14.
- ⟨III.⟩ OMNIS LINEA CIRCUMFERENS SUPPERADDIT VEL MAIOR EST TRIPLO DIAMETRI MINUS SEPTIMA PLUSQUE DECEM PARTIBUS EX 71 DIAMEITRI PARTIBUS.