Books in the Scientific Writings from the Ancient and Medieval World series

This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus' Arithmetica, alongside a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical commentary. Of interest to scholars of history from ancient Greece to the Renaissance, historians of mathematics, science, and technology, and mathematicians.

This book provides a critical edition and an English translation of the chapter on spheres (gol¿dhy¿ya) from Nity¿nanda's Sarvasiddh¿ntar¿ja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India. Suitable for those studying and interested in the history of non-western astral sciences.