TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rashed,Roshdi
AU  - Papadopoulos,Athanase
TI  - Menelaus' ›Spherics‹: Early Translation and Al-Māhānī / Al-Harawī's Version
T2  - Scientia Graeco-Arabica Series
SN  - 9783110571424
AV  - QA643 .R374 2017 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - Walter de Gruyter GmbH
KW  - Menelaus,-of Alexandria
KW  - Geodesics (Mathematics)
KW  - Sphere
KW  - Geometry, Differential
KW  - Curves on surfaces-Mathematical models
KW  - Surfaces-Mathematical models
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- FOREWORD -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1: MENELAUS AND HIS WRITINGS -- CHAPTER 2: THE REDACTION OF THE SPHERICS BY AL-MĀHĀNĪ AND AL-HARAWĪ -- CHAPTER 3: AN ELEVENTH-CENTURY WITNESS OF THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE SPHERICS: IBN HŪD -- EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF MENELAUS' PROPOSITIONS QUOTED IN IBN HŪD'S ENCYCLOPEDIA -- PART II: MATHEMATICAL COMMENTARY -- CHAPTER 1: THE MATHEMATICAL CONTENT OF THE SPHERICS -- CHAPTER 2: THE PROPOSITIONS -- PART III: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS -- CHAPTER 1: THE SPHERICS: A FRAGMENT OF AN ANCIENT TRANSLATION -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION: Menelaus' Treatise on the Spherics -- CHAPTER 2: THE SPHERICS: THE VERSION OF AL-MĀHĀNĪ AND AL-HARAWĪ -- TEXT AND TRANSLATION: The Treatise of Menelaus on the Spherical Figures -- POSTFACE: SPHERICAL GEOMETRY: A FEW MARKERS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ARABIC-ENGLISH GLOSSARY -- INDEXES
N2  - The series is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs, it provides access to ancient scientific inquiry as it developed in a continuous tradition from Antiquity to the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes
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