To illustrate with one example, the work of Hippocrates on the quadrature of lunes is only known to us through Eudemus's History of Geometry. |
Plusieurs lunes is an eclectic album, although the sound is outmoded and it tends to drag on a bit. |
In the course of a few hours poor lunes was brought to me in a most desolate condition. |
The squaring of the circle by means of lunes is not eristic, but the quadrature of Bryson is eristic. |
In particular Simplicius quotes the writing on Eudemus on Antiphon's attempts to square the circle and also the attempts of Hippocrates when he squared certain lunes. |
He squared certain lunes, and also the sum of a lune and a circle. |