It is a small treatise of seventeen folios in which we find nothing on mensuration that the arithmeticians of the East did not know. |
Hypsicles added a Book XIV to the Elements which dealt with the mensuration of the regular dodecahedron and icosahedron. |
It is devoted mainly to arithmetic and algebra, with just a few problems on geometry and mensuration. |
This section on mensuration certainly has more in common with Hindu and Hebrew texts than it does with any Greek work. |
Such a braiding of machines and men, meaning and mensuration, should not surprise us. |
Chapter 13 consists of 55 verses on arithmetic, mensuration, and shadow reckoning. |