Al-KindĪ's Commentary on Archimedes' "The Measurement of the Circle

Philosophy, On the Explanation of the Finitude of the Universe, etc. To take the case of this latter text, al-Kindi proceeds by the 'ordered' method to demonstrate the inconsistency in the concept of a body of infinite size. He begins by defining the basic

11 Al-Nadim, al-Fihrist, pp. 316-7.