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Banū Mūsā

This treatise on geometry was used extensively in the Middle Ages, quoted by authors such as Thābit ibn Qurra, Ibn al‐Haytham, Leonardo Fibonacci (in his Practica geometriae), Jordanus de Nemore, and Roger Bacon.



see also

Gerald J. Toomer

Apollonius: Conics, books V to VII. The Arabic translation of the lost Greek original in the version of the Banū Mūsā.