Wilbur Knorr
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilbur Richard Knorr was an American historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments of philosophy and classics at Stanford University. He has been called "one of the most profound and certainly the most provocative historian of Greek mathematics" of the 20th century.
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- The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems (1985) (204)
- The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements (1975) (163)
- Plato and Eudoxus on the Planetary Motions (1990) (73)
- Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Geometry (1990) (62)
- The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements: A Study of the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and Its Significance for Early Greek Geometry (1974) (53)
- The Wrong Text of Euclid: On Heiberg's Text and its Alternatives* (1996) (51)
- Techniques of Fractions in Ancient Egypt and Greece (1982) (40)
- Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica: in the Arabic Translation Attributed to Qusta ibn Luqa (1982) (37)
- Construction as existence proof in ancient geometry (1983) (32)
- Arithmêtikê stoicheiôsis: On diophantus and hero of Alexandria (1993) (26)
- Archimedes' dimension of the circle: A view of the genesis of the extant text (1986) (22)
- Observations on the Early History of the Conies (1982) (21)
- Archimedes and the elements: Proposal for a revised chronological ordering of the Archimedean corpus (1978) (19)
- The Geometry of Burning-Mirrors in Antiquity (1983) (18)
- Archimedes and the measurement of the circle: A new interpretation (1976) (18)
- Archimedes and the spirals: The heuristic background (1978) (16)
- Ancient sources of the medieval tradition of mechanics : Greek, Arabic, and Latin studies of the balance (1982) (14)
- On the Principle of Linear Perspective in Euclid's Optics (1991) (13)
- “La croix des mathématiciens”: The Euclidean theory of irrational lines (1983) (13)
- John of Tynemouth alias John of London: emerging portrait of a singular medieval mathematician (1990) (12)
- Archimedes after Dijksterhuis: A Guide to Recent Studies (1987) (11)
- On The Early History of Axiomatics: The Interaction of Mathematics and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity (1980) (10)
- “Rational Diameters” and the Discovery of Incommensurability (1998) (10)
- Problems in the interpretation of greek number theory: Euclid and the ‘fundamental theorem of arithmetic’ (1976) (9)
- On Archimedes' Construction of the Regular Heptagon (1989) (9)
- Archimedes' Neusis-Constructions in Spiral Lines (1978) (8)
- Archimedes’ lost treatise on the centers of gravity of solids (1978) (8)
- The Hyperbola‐Construction in the Conics, Book II: Ancient Variations on a Theorem of Apollonius (1981) (8)
- When circles don't look like circles: An optical theorem in Euclid and Pappus (1992) (8)
- Ancient Versions of two Trigonometric Lemmas (1985) (7)
- Euclid's Tenth Book : An Analytic Survey( The Historiography of the History of Mathematics) (1985) (5)
- On Heiberg's Euclid (2001) (4)
- Aristotle and incommensurability: Some further reflections (1981) (4)
- The Impact of Modern Mathematics on Ancient Mathematics (2004) (4)
- Methodology, Philology, and Philosophy (1979) (4)
- Zeno’s Paradoxes Still in Motion (1983) (3)
- Boethian Number Theory: A Translation of the "De institutione arithmetica". Boethius, Michael Masi (1985) (3)
- The Latin Sources Of Quadrans Vetus, And What They Imply For Its Authorship And Date (1997) (3)
- On the transmission of geometry from Greek into Arabic (1983) (3)
- Paraphrase Editions of Latin Mathematical Texts: De figuris ysoperimetris (1990) (2)
- A correction to my article “Aristotle and Incommensurability” (1982) (2)
- The Geometer and the Archaeoastronomers: On the Prehistoric Origins of Mathematics (1985) (2)
- Another Look at Ptolemy's IVY Leaf (1991) (2)
- New Readings in Greek Mathematics: Sources, Problems, Publications. (1990) (2)
- Sacrobosco's Quadrans: Date and Sources (1997) (2)
- The practical element in ancient exact sciences (1989) (2)
- On a medieval circle quadrature: De circulo quadrando (1991) (2)
- Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica: In the Arabic Translation Attributed to Qusṭâ Ibn Lûqâ. By Jacques Sesiano (1985) (1)
- Division and Logos. Christian Marinus Taisbak (1974) (1)
- Essay Review: Notes on Rosen's Copernicus, Nicolas Copernicus: Minor Works (Nicolas Copernicus: Complete Works, Vol. iii) (1990) (1)
- On an alleged error in Archimedes' Conoids, Prop. 1 (1993) (1)
- On The Early History of Axiomatics: A Reply To Some Criticisms (1980) (1)
- Hypatia of Alexandria (1995) (1)
- Book Review:Greek and Roman Maps O. A. W. Dilke (1991) (1)
- Origin of the Extant Text of the Dimension of the Circle (1989) (0)
- The Medieval Astronomical Curriculum (1993) (0)
- Lost Propositions of the Archimedean Prototype (1989) (0)
- Pappus’ Texts on Cube Duplication (1989) (0)
- On Eutocius: A Thesis of J. Mogenet (1989) (0)
- The Angle Trisection by Ahmad ibn Müsä (1989) (0)
- Eutocius’ Anthology of Cube Duplications (1989) (0)
- Plato’s Account of the Work of Theodorus (1975) (0)
- The Cube Duplication by Abū Bakr al-Harawī (1989) (0)
- The Hero–Apollonius Lemma in Nicomedes and Euclid (1989) (0)
- The Latin Tradition: De quadratura circuli (1989) (0)
- The Cube Duplication and Angle Trisection by Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (1989) (0)
- Versions in the Ancient Commentators (1989) (0)
- The Cube Duplication by Abū Ja c far in the Manner of Nicomedes (1989) (0)
- The Geometry of Incommensurability: Theaetetus and Eudoxus (1975) (0)
- The Latin Tradition: De curvis superficiebus (1989) (0)
- Introduction: Philologist, Heal Thy Text (1989) (0)
- The Angle Trisection by al-Sijzī (1989) (0)
- A Critical Review of Reconstructions of Theodorus’ Proofs (1975) (0)
- The Side and the Diameter (1975) (0)
- The Angle Trisection by Thābit ibn Qurra (1989) (0)
- The Ancient Commentators and Their Methods: Pappus and Eutocius (1989) (0)
- The Hero-Apollonius Method of Cube Duplication (1989) (0)
- The Medieval Tradition of Dimension of the Circle, Prop. 1 (1989) (0)
- Arabic Elaborations of the Dimension of the Circle (1989) (0)
- BJH volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1976) (0)
- The Philonian Method of Cube Duplication (1989) (0)
- The Anonymous Tract On Isoperimetric Figures (1989) (0)
- A Legendary Thinker: Hypatia of Alexandria . Maria Dzielska. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995. xii, 159 pp. $29.95 or £23.95. Revealing Antiquity, 8. Translated by F. Lyra. (1995) (0)
- Eutocius’ Text of Dimension of the Circle (1989) (0)
- The Early Study of Incommensurability: Theodorus (1975) (0)
- Eutocius’ Text of Eratosthenes: A Thesis of U. von Wilamowitz (1989) (0)
- Conclusions and Syntheses (1975) (0)
- The Arithmetic of Incommensurability: Theaetetus and Archytas (1975) (0)
- The Pythagorean Arithmetic of the Fifth Century (1975) (0)
- The History of a Text: Tradition, Time and Opportunity (1989) (0)
- Versions of Dimension of the Circle, Props. 2 and 3 (1989) (0)
- Angle Trisections in Pappus and Arabic Parallels (1989) (0)
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