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The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides a...
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Menelaus of Alexandria (1st century CE) is the author of the treatise Sphaerica and as of a treatise on fluid statics. Both of these works only survive in Arabic translations. This book provides an editio princeps of Menelaus’s second text as well as the recently discovered commentary thereon, written by the philosopher and scholar Muhammad ibn al-Haytham (10th–11th century).

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Price: $172.99
Pages: 173
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 24 August 2020
ISBN: 9783110698152
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS002000 HISTORY / Ancient / General, LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, REL037000 RELIGION / Islam / General, REL051000 RELIGION / Philosophy
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Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris, Frankreich / Universität Tokio, Japan.

Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris, France / University of Tokyo, Japan.