Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Reihe: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
With a Translation of That Portion of Book I Missing from MS Leiden Or. 399.1 But Present in the Newly Discovered Qom Manuscript Edited by Rüdiger Arnzen
Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 544 g
Reihe: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
ISBN: 978-90-04-17389-7
Verlag: Brill
The Commentary of al-Nayrizi (circa 920) on Euclid’s Elements of Geometry occupies an important place both in the history of mathematics and of philosophy, particularly Islamic philosophy. It is a compilation of original work by al-Nayrizi and of translations and commentaries made by others, such as Heron. It is the most influential Arabic mathematical manuscript in existence and a principle vehicle whereby mathematics was reborn in the Latin West. Furthermore, the Commentary on Euclid by the Platonic philosopher Simplicius, entirely reproduced by al-Nayrizi, and nowhere else extant, is essential to the study of the attempt to prove Euclid’s Fifth Postulate from the preceding four. Al-Nayrizi was one of the two main sources from which Albertus Magnus (1193-1280), the Doctor Universalis, learned mathematics. This work presents an annotated English translation of Books II-IV and of a hitherto lost portion of Book I.
