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On the history and degree of certain geometrical approximations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

A.J. Pressland
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According to Luther's translation 1 Kings vi. 31 should read— “At the entrance of the choir he made two doors with pentagonal door-posts.” This is probably a wrong translation, for nowhere on Asiatic monuments of this time has a pentagon been found. Prof. A. Merx in Cantor's Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathemalik, Vol. i., p. 91.

It is probable that the construction of the regular pentagon is due to the Pythagorean school as a consequence of I. 47. (Ibid, p. 151.)

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 10 , February 1891 , pp. 23 - 30
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1891

References

* The very close approximations are marked with an asterisk.

* Diversarum speculationum, mathematicarum et physicarum Liber (1585)

† Geometria practica, lib. VIII. prop. 29.

* This was read at the Sixth Meeting, 8th April, 1892.