Rashed / Papadopoulos Menelaus' ›Spherics‹

Early Translation and al-Mahani / al-Harawi's Version
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-056987-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Arabisch, Band 21, 888 Seiten

Reihe: Scientia Graeco-ArabicaISSN

Despite its importance in the history of Ancient science, Menelaus’ Spherics is still by and large unknown. This treatise, which lies at the foundation of spherical geometry, is lost in Greek but has been preserved in its Arabic versions. The reader will find here, for the first time edited and translated into English, the essentials of this tradition, namely: a fragment of an early Arabic translation and the first Arabic redaction of the Spherics composed by al-Mahani /al-Harawi, together with a historical and mathematical study of Menelaus’ treatise. With this book, a new and important part of the Greek and Arabic legacy to the history of mathematics comes to light. This book will be an indispensable acquisition for any reader interested in the history of Ancient geometry and science and, more generally, in Greek and Arabic science and culture.

Zielgruppe

Classical philologists, historians of Arabic culture, language, G

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rashed, Roshdi

Papadopoulos, Athanase

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie

Über Autor(innen)

Roshdi Rashed, Université Paris / University of Tokyo; Athanase Papadopoulos, Université de Strasbourg.