Theodosius, Sphaerica: Arabic and Medieval Latin Translations - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3515092889 ISBN 13: 9783515092883

Casa editrice: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh, 2010

Riassunto

Theodosius' Sphaerica, on the geometry of the sphere, was one of many Greek mathematical works translated into Arabic in ninth-century Baghdad. It was also one of the mathematical works translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century as part of the Little Renaissance in the West. In this book, one Arabic translation is edited, accompanied by Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation. The edition is followed by a mathematical summary for modern readers. This parallel Arabic-Latin edition can be regarded as a model for the treatment of scientific texts from Antiquity that reached us through a series of translations.

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Paul Kunitzsch is professor emeritus of Arabic at the University of Munich. His research has been centred on the transmission of science, especially astronomy and astrology, from Ancient Greece to Arabia and from Arabia to medieval Europe. Richard Lorch is a retired historian of medieval mathematics, and of Arabic and Latin translations of Greek materials. He published a number of texts and studies on spherical trigonometry and on the astrolabe.

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• Editore: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3515092889
• ISBN 13: 9783515092883
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 431
• Redattore: Kunitzsch Paul, Lorch Richard