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1 Pappus, VII. p. 638.
2 Vol. VI. in the Teubner edition of Euclidis opera omnia by Heiberg and Menge. A translation of the Data is also included in Simson's Euclid (though naturally his text left much to be desired).
3 Proclus, p. 69, 4.
4 ibid. 144, 22-26.
5 Steinschneider places him in the 10th c. H. Suter (Bibliotheca Mathematica, IV_{3}, 1903, pp. 24, 27) identifies him with Abū (Bekr) Muh. b. 'Abdalbāqī al-Baġdādī, Qād|ī (Judge) of Māristān (circa 1070-1141), to whom he also attributes the Liber judei (? judicis) super decimum Euclidis translated by Gherard of Cremona.
6 De superficierum divisionibus liber Machometo Bagdadino adscriptus, nunc primum Ioannis Dee Londinensis et Federici Commandini Urbinatis opera in lucem editus, Pisauri, 1570, afterwards included in Gregory's Euclid (Oxford, 1703).
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