It is true that in recent years a number of attractive histories of mathematics have been published in England and America, but these have only dealt with Greek mathematics as part of the larger subject, and in consequence the writers have been precluded... from presenting the work of the Greeks in sufficient detail. The same remark applies to the German histories of mathematics, even to the great work of Moritz Cantor...

A History of Greek Mathematics (1921) Vol. 1. From Thales to Euclid