sentences:  Solomon Gandz conjectured that the text was compiled no later than (possibly by Rabbi Nehemiah) and intended to be a part of the Mishnah, but was excluded from its final canonical edition because the work was regarded as too secular.The content resembles both the work of Hero of Alexandria (c. ) and that of al-Khwārizmī (c. ) and the proponents of the earlier dating therefore see the "Mishnat ha-Middot" linking Greek and Islamic mathematics.The "Mishnat ha-Middot" was discovered in MS 36 of the Munich Library by Moritz Steinschneider in 1862.