Lost manuscripts written by the famous Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga were discovered in the Netherlands. The ancient finds are located at Leiden University Libraries.

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

Explore the captivating journey of ancient Greek astronomy in which mythological tales and mathematical precision mix together.

The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, in operation for a few months now, uncovered light coming from a ...

Constantine Karatheodori (1873–1950) is the most influential Greek mathematician since antiquity. His groundbreaking contributions to mathematics—from real and complex analysis to thermodynamics, ...

Scholars found two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as the Great Geometer. The works were found in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden ...

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...