History of geometry Euclid (c. 325-265 BC), of Alexandria, probably a student at the Academy founded by Plato, wrote a treatise in 13 books (chapters), titled "The Elements of Geometry", in which he presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form, which came to be known as Euclidean geometry. The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry. We know from other references that Euclid’s was not the first elementary geometry textbook, but it was so much superior that the others fell into disuse and were
History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria H. E. Burmester, in Cairo. In 1713 Eusèbe Renaudot published the Latin translation "Historia patriarcharum alexandrinorum jacobitarum". A scholarly Arabic edition was started by Christian Friedrich Seybold (1904). History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria The History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria is a major historical work of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It is written in Arabic, but draws extensively on Greek and Coptic sources. The compilation was based on earlier biographical sources. It was begun by Severus Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, although one scholar contests its attribution to him. It was continued by others including Michael, bishop of Tinnis (11th