Persian language) Translations into Latin: Chorasmiae et Mawaralnahrae, etc. (1650). A description of Khwarezm and Mawarannahr (Transoxiana) translated from the Arabic MS of Abu'l-Fida, with tables of latitude and longitude for the principal towns. A copy is in Merton College Library. Abulfedae Peninsulam Arabum. This is an edited translation of part of Abu'l-Fida's History. Binae Tabulae Geographicae, two tables of geographical latitudes and longitudes translated from the Persian of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Ulugh Beg The above three works appeared in Hudson, John (1712): Geographiae Veteris Scriptores Graeci Minores Vol. III, Oxon. (in Latin) Lemmata Archimedis, apud Graecos et Latinos iam pridem desiderata, e vetusto codice manuscripto Arabico. This is a translation of part of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's edition of the so-called Middle Books. Greaves' unpublished MS was revised and amended after his death by Samuel Foster: Foster, Samuel (1659). Miscellanea sive lucubrationes mathematicae. London: printed by R. & W. Leybourn, published by John Twysden. The following book may not be by John Greaves, although his name appears on the title-page. First printed (posthumously) in 1706 for G. Sawbridge, and again in 1727, with a second edition in 1745, it discusses Greaves' findings and measurements of the Roman foot and denarius. Greaves, John (1745) [1706]. The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd... 2nd edition. London: Printed for W. Payne and W. Bathoe. See also List of Gresham Professors of Geometry Pyramid inch References Notes Sources External links Measurer of all things: John Greaves – The great Pyramid and early Modern Metrology by Zur Shalev Astrolabe belonging to John Greaves, inscribed by Nicholas Greaves. Large astrolabe originally made for Queen Elizabeth I, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford 1602 births 1652 deaths People from East Hampshire District 17th-century English mathematicians 17th-century English astronomers Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Savilian Professors of Astronomy Professors of Gresham College English Anglicans Leiden University alumni University of Padua alumni English expatriates in the Netherlands English expatriates in the Ottoman Empire English numismatists English orientalists Book and manuscript collectors Great Pyramid of Giza