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  • For an appreciation of Björnbo's life and work see Heiberg J.L. Axel Anthon Björnbo (1874–1911) Bibliotheca mathematica 1911–12 12 3 337 344 A biographical notice by H. G. Zeuthen and a bibliography by Raphael Meyer are in the foreword to A. A. Björnbo and S. Vogl, ‘Alkindi, Tideus und Pseudo-Euklid: drei optische Werke’, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 26 (1912), (3), 1–6. See also biography by S. Dahl in Danske Biografisk Leksikon, vol. 3 (1934), pp. 201–203.
  • Björnbo , A.A. 1902 . Studien über Menelaos' Sphärik. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sphärik und Astronomie der Griechen . Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften , 14 : 1 – 154 .
  • Björnbo , A.A. 1903 . Uber ein bibliographisches Repertorium der handschriftlichen mathematischen Literatur des Mittelalters . Bibliotheca mathematica , 4 ( 3 ) : 326 – 333 .
  • See footnote 1 for bibliography; and Folkerts M. Der Nachlass Axel Anthon Björnbos Historia mathematica 1978 5 333 339
  • Die mittelalterlichen lateinischen Übersetzungen aus dem Griechischen auf dem Gebiete der mathematischen Wissenschaften Cantor-Festschrift Südhoff Karl Günther Siegmund Vogel Leipzig 1909 93 102 in (Also published in Archiv für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und der Technik, vol. 1, 385–394.)
  • 1903 . Bibliotheca mathematica , 4 ( 3 ) : 238 – 245 . 6 (1905), 230–238; 12 (1911–12), 97–132, 193–224.
  • For this account I have used Ullman Berthold L. Stadter Philip A. The public library of Renaissance Florence Antenore Padua 1972 See also P. L. Rose, The Italian renaissance of mathematics (Geneva: Droz, 1975), 33–35.
  • 1739 . Bibliotheca bibliothecarum manuscriptorum nova Vol. 1 , 419 – 429 . Paris
  • Ullman and Stadter . 1972 . The public library of Renaissance Florence , Padua : Antenore .
  • Sarton , George . 1927–48 . Introduction to the history of science , Vol. 3 , Baltimore : Williams and Wilkins . in 4; Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre, Catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin (revised edition, Mediaeval Academy of America publication, no. 29: Cambridge, Mass., 1963), P. O. Kristeller, Iter italicum: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries (London: Warburg Institute, 1965–67), 2 vols.; Isis (1913– ); and Scriptorium (1946/47– ).
  • Wallis , H.M. and Tyacke , S. , eds. 1973 . My head is a map 21 – 52 . London
  • Wallis , H.M. and Tyacke , S. , eds. 1973 . My head is a map 81 – 106 . London
  • See my A note on some elementary arithmetic algorithms Int. math. educ. sci. techn. 1972 3 307 310
  • See my Achilles is still running Trans. C. S. Peirce Soc. 1974 10 8 16
  • On this point see also M. Fisch's review of this edition in Trans. C. S. Peirce Soc. 1978 14 200 211
  • See my The correspondence between Georg Cantor and Philip Jourdain Jber. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. 1971 73 111 130

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