Sentence examples for book of elements from inspiring English sources

In his philosophical works, such as the Kitab al-ustuqusat ("Book of Elements") and the Kitab al-hudud ("Book of Definitions"), Israeli drew largely upon a 9th-century Muslim popularizer of Greek philosophy, Abū ğūsuf Yaʿqūb al-Kindī, and also, in all probability, upon a lost pseudo-Aristotelian text.

Other works are attributed to him, including one on setting times of the signs of the zodiac, one (in six books) on chords in a circle, and one (in three books) on elements of geometry, but his only extant work is Sphaerica.

The following year his first book of photographs, Elements, was published.

Euclid's fifth proposition in the first book of his Elements (that the base angles in an isosceles triangle are equal) may have been named the Bridge of Asses (Latin: Pons Asinorum) for medieval students who, clearly not destined to cross over into more abstract mathematics, had difficulty understanding the proof or even the need for the proof.

Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about a 50th-anniversary edition of the book The Elements of Style misspelled part of the publisher's name.

Sure, the book may have one of those lengthy old-fashioned titles, but "The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid" is so rationalist, minimalist and aesthetically pure, every graphic designer, book lover and math nerd will be as awe-struck as I was.

This was produced 27 years before Oliver Byrne used the rebus concept in "The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid," though there is no evidence to prove that this is where he got the idea.

Euclid, in keeping with the self-conscious logic of Aristotle, began the first of his 13 books of the Elements with sets of definitions ("a line is breadthless length"), common notions ("the whole is greater than the part"), and axioms, or postulates ("all right angles are equal").

He also wrote a book of criticism, The Elements of Poetry (1963), and a volume of essays, Of Places and Poetry (1976).

Proclus' distinctively non-empirical approach towards physics and astronomy also influences his philosophy of mathematics, which is set out in the two prologues to his commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements.

This distinction was also stressed by the last of the great classical Greek philosophers, the Neoplatonist Proclus, who wrote a commentary on the first Book of Euclid's Elements in the fifth century [Quotations].