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Archimedes. Ibn al-Nadim relates from a reliable source that the Byzantines burned fifteen loads of his books. He lists those that survive, among them the book of the sphere and the cylinder, the book on squaring the circle, and the book on triangles. 2
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- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p.372
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