Menelaus' ›Spherics‹ : : Early Translation and al-Māhānī / al-Harawī's Version /

Menelaus' ›Spherics‹ : : Early Translation and al-Māhānī / al-Harawī's Version / / Roshdi Rashed, Athanase Papadopoulos.

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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 tran...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
VerfasserIn:
Rashed, Roshdi,
Papadopoulos, Athanase,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Scientia Graeco-Arabica , 21
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 874 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • FOREWORD
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I
  • CHAPTER 1: MENELAUS AND HIS WRITINGS
  • CHAPTER 2: THE REDACTION OF THE SPHERICS BY AL-MĀHĀNĪ AND AL-HARAWĪ
  • CHAPTER 3: AN ELEVENTH-CENTURY WITNESS OF THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE SPHERICS: IBN HŪD
  • EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF MENELAUS’ PROPOSITIONS QUOTED IN IBN HŪD’S ENCYCLOPEDIA
  • PART II: MATHEMATICAL COMMENTARY
  • CHAPTER 1: THE MATHEMATICAL CONTENT OF THE SPHERICS
  • CHAPTER 2: THE PROPOSITIONS
  • PART III: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
  • CHAPTER 1: THE SPHERICS: A FRAGMENT OF AN ANCIENT TRANSLATION
  • TEXT AND TRANSLATION
  • CHAPTER 2. THE SPHERICS: THE VERSION OF AL-MĀHĀNĪ AND AL-HARAWĪ
  • TEXT AND TRANSLATION
  • POSTFACE: SPHERICAL GEOMETRY: A FEW MARKERS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ARABIC-ENGLISH GLOSSARY
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • INDEX OF WORKS
  • INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS

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