Re: [HM] Wither the Parallelepipedon

Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@adinet.com.uy)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:47:07 -0300

At 06:52 PM 13/06/1999 -0400, Jeff Miller <JeffM@sanctum.com> wrote:
> ...
> The 1570 date for parallelepiped in Merriam-Webster's Tenth Collegiate
> Dictionary refers to the first known use of the term in English, which
> would be in Billingsley's translation of Euclid.
> ...

But my guess is that Billingsley used PARALLELEPIPEDON instead, which
is the transliterated Greek word.

> Jeff Miller
> http://members.aol.com/jeff570mathword.html

The URL should read
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html

Best regards, Julio.

PS By the way, in Spanish the word "paralelepipedo" is well-known, even
for very young teenagers (at least here in UY).