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Livre IV. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe

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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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Book IV of the Konika consists of two parts; the first presents a theory of poles and polars, the second deals with the number of intersections and points of contact in a conic section. Previously the book was only extant as the very unreliable text of a Greek commentary by Eutocius. Roshdi Rashed here presents for the first time an edition of an Arabic translation based on a text independent of this Greek version. This is a valuable re-discovery, for which reason it is published here as a separate volume. It contains an edition princeps of the Arabic text, together with a faithful translation and a historical-mathematical commentary.

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Price: $320.00
Pages: 329
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 18 March 2009
ISBN: 9783110199383
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS002000 HISTORY / Ancient / General, LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, MAT015000 MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy
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Roshdi Rashed, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique und Université de Paris VII, Paris, Frankreich.