The commentary of Al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of geometry : with an introduction on the transmission of Euclid's Elements in the Middle Ages / [translated and] edited by Anthony Lo Bello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lo Bello, Anthony, 1947- editor.

Series:

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts.

Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science ; Volume 1.

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts

Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science ; Volume 1

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Geometry--Early works to 1800.

Geometry.

Mathematics, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

For more than two millennia, the Elements of Geometry by the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (ca. 300 B.C.E. ) was held to be "the supreme example of the exercise of human reason" and "a paradigm of rational certainty" (from the preface, after Simon Blackburn). The Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry introduces readers to the transmission of Euclid's Elements from the Middle East to the Latin West in the medieval period and then offers the first English translation of al-Nayrizi's (d. ca. 922) Arabic commentary on Book I. The Three Volumes are also available as set (ISBN 0 391 04197 5).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-271).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lo Bello, Anthony The Commentary of Al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry

ISBN:

90-04-45364-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004453647 DOI