The Commentary of Al-Nayrizi on Books II-IV of Euclid's Elements of Geometry - 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

The Commentary of al-Nayrizi (circa 920) on Euclida (TM)s "Elements" occupies an important place in the history of mathematics and of philosophy. The present work presents an annotated English translation of Books II-IV and of a hitherto lost portion of Book I.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anthony Lo Bello
• Verlag: Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.04.2009
• EAN: 9789004173897
• ISBN: 978-90-04-17389-7
• Seiten: 215
• Abmessung: 168 mm x 244 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 544 g
• Serie: Studies in Platonism, Neoplato
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Mathematik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Antike bis Gegenwart