Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie

Download or read book Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie written by Barnabas Hughes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Pisa, perhaps better known as Fibonacci (ca. 1170 – ca. 1240), selected the most useful parts of Greco-Arabic geometry for the book known as De Practica Geometrie. This translation offers a reconstruction of De Practica Geometrie as the author judges Fibonacci wrote it, thereby correcting inaccuracies found in numerous modern histories. It is a high quality translation with supplemental text to explain text that has been more freely translated. A bibliography of primary and secondary resources follows the translation, completed by an index of names and special words.