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    In geometry, a polyhedron (pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-)  'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron)  'base, seat') is a three-dimensional shape...
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    Avicenna and Jamshīd al-Kāshī made advances in algebra, trigonometry, geometry and Arabic numerals. Islamic doctors described diseases like smallpox and...
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    In geometry, the rhombic dodecahedron is a convex polyhedron with 12 congruent rhombic faces. It has 24 edges, and 14 vertices of 2 types. It is a Catalan...
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    Jâbir et la science grecque. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. ISBN 9783487091150. OCLC 468740510. Olerud, Anders (1951). L'idée de...
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    major university with 31 chairs for law, philosophy, medicine, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, rhetoric and other subjects. Fifteen chairs were assigned...
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    principally with additional material, in the great compendium, Bibliothèque Orientale. He was born Muṣṭafa ibn 'Abd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله) in Istanbul in...
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    inter-nazionale (Napoli,, 19-22 aprile 1982), Napoli, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Dipartimento di studi asiatici, XXII (1984), 396-397 Gérard Huet. "« Dictionnaire...
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    Jâbir et la science grecque. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. ISBN 9783487091150. OCLC 468740510. vol. I, pp. xvii–lxv. RASHED, ROSHDI;...
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    concentric topographic rings, and are called multi-ringed basins, for example Orientale. On icy (as opposed to rocky) bodies, other morphological forms appear...
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  • Wood Tablets", Le Caire Imprimerie de l'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale, 1901, 95–96. Eves, Howard (1961) An Introduction to the History of Mathematics...
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