The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c24.4
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c24.4
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Circle; Area of, 95; Division, equal, 42-43; Doubling, 21; Magnitudes, 201; Squaring and vice versa, 18-19, 21, 27, 40, 143-51. (See also, Postulates, Quadrature, Segment, and Square.) Commentators, 10-11, 13, 16-19. Compass, Possibility of, 34 Congruence theorems, 44. Constructions, 52-70; Parallelogram, 67-70; Perpendicular, 42-55; Rectangle, 62-63; Square, 55-62; Trapezium, isosceles, 63-66. (See Altar.) Cylinder, Volume of a, 101.