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Menelaus' ›Spherics‹

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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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  • 23 October 2017
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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 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-Māhānī /al-Harawī, 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.

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Price: $300.00
Pages: 888
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Publication Date: 23 October 2017
ISBN: 9783110568233
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS002000 HISTORY / Ancient / General, HIS026000 HISTORY / Middle East / General, LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, MAT012040 MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Non-Euclidean, REL037000 RELIGION / Islam / General, REL051000 RELIGION / Philosophy
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Roshdi Rashed, Université Paris / University of Tokyo; Athanase Papadopoulos, Université de Strasbourg.