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Alfonso's Rectifying the Curved - A Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Geometrical-Philosophical Treatise (English, Hebrew, Arabic, Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Alfonso's Rectifying the Curved - A Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Geometrical-Philosophical Treatise (English, Hebrew, Arabic, Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and
detailed commentary on Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov, (The Rectifying of the
Curved), a 14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of
geometry. The book is a mixture of two genres: philosophical
discussion and formal, Euclidean-type geometrical writing. A
central issue is the use of motion and superposition in geometry,
which is analyzed in depth through dialog with earlier Arab
mathematicians. The author, Alfonso, was identified by Gita
Gluskina (the editor of the 1983 Russian edition) as Alfonso of
Valladolid, the converted Jew Abner of Burgos. Alfonso lived in
Castile, rather far from the leading cultural centers of his time,
but nonetheless at the crossroad of three cultures. He was raised
in the Jewish tradition and like many Sephardic Jewish
intellectuals was versed in Greek-Arabic philosophy and science. He
also had connections with some Christian nobles and towards the end
of his life converted to Christianity. Driven by his ambition to
solve the problem of the quadrature of the circle, as well as other
open geometrical problems, Alfonso acquired surprisingly wide
knowledge and became familiar with several episodes in Greek and
Arabic geometry that historians usually consider not to have been
known in the West in the fourteenth century. Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov
reflects his wide and deep erudition in mathematics and philosophy,
and provides new evidence on cultural transmission around the
Mediterranean.
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