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Herodotus and Aristotle on Egyptian Geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2009

J. Gwyn Griffiths
Affiliation:
University College, Swansea

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1952

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References

page 10 note 1 Herodots zweites Buch (Leipzig, 1890), 28.Google Scholar

page 10 note 2 The Credibility of Herodotus' Account of Egypt (tr. Blackman, : Oxford, 1927), 17.Google Scholar

page 10 note 3 See Erman, (tr. Blackman, ), The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (London, 1927), 193.Google Scholar

page 11 note 1 Cf. Farrington, , Science in Antiquity 2 (Oxford, 1947), 19Google Scholar. For other practical problems discussed by Egyptian mathematicians see Sloley, R. W. in The Legacy Egypt (Oxford, 1942), 173 ff.Google Scholar