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Menelaus' >Spherics< - Early Translation and al-Mahani / al-Harawi's Version (Hardcover)
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Menelaus' >Spherics< - Early Translation and al-Mahani / al-Harawi's Version (Hardcover)
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica
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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-Mahani /al-Harawi, 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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