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The Sicilian expedition, being books VI and VII of Thucydides, with notes, by the rev. Percival Frost. New edition

Typology: Commentary | Language: English | Place of publication: London | Publisher: Macmillan and co. | Year: 1877

Greek Text: yes

Content: The Sicilian Expedition

Percival Frost (1817-1898), mathematician. Frost became a fellow of St John's College and was later associated with Jesus College and King's College, Cambridge, as a mathematics lecturer. He edited Newton's Principia (1854) and co-authored A Treatise on Solid Geometry (1863), both widely used as textbooks. His research covered algebra, geometry, electricity, magnetism, and solar system theory. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883, he also held a fellowship at King's College from that year. ODBN

Revision of the text and the commentary published by Frost 1867.

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