MENELAI SPHAERICORUM LIBRI III

On Intrinsic Spherical Triangles, Rising-Time Arc Inequalities, and the Planar & Spherical Transversal Theorem

(c. 70 – c. 140 CE · Observed at Rome, 98 CE)

SPHAERICORUM LIBRI TRES
4 Synchronized Units · Halley Oxford Latin (1758) & Ptolemy Syntaxis I.13 Polytonic Greek (Heiberg 1898)
Original English Translation, Analytical Summaries & Exact SymPy / geometor.model Commentary

Conspectus Totius Operis

(Analytical Table of Contents)

UNIT I — BOOK I: INTRINSIC SPHERICAL TRIANGLES, CONGRUENCE & EXCESS

(LIBER PRIMUS — Praefatio Costardi [pp. i–viii]; Definitiones I–VI & Propositiones I.1, I.4–5, I.8–11, I.14–17, I.21 [Halley pp. 1–47])

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UNIT II — BOOK II: SPHERICAL ARCS, GREAT CIRCLES & RISING-TIME INEQUALITIES

(LIBER SECUNDUS — Propositiones II.1, II.6–12 [Halley pp. 48–79] & Pappus Synagoge VI Witnesses)

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UNIT III — BOOK III (PART 1): THEOREM OF MENELAUS, CHORDS OF DOUBLE ARCS & SINES

(LIBER TERTIUS, PARS I — Prop. III.1, Scholion Halleii, Lemmata I–II, Syntaxis I.13 Graece & Prop. III.2–5 [Halley pp. 80–90; Heiberg pp. 68–76])

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UNIT IV — BOOK III (PART 2): ANHARMONIC CROSS-RATIO, ALTITUDES & PROJECTIVE LEGACY

(LIBER TERTIUS, PARS II — Propositiones III.6–10 [Halley pp. 91–97], Converse of Menelaus & Ceva–Menelaus Duality)

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