RecordNumber
1767
Author
Sidoli, Nathan
Crop_Body
Nathan Sidoli and Takanori Kusuba
Title of Article
Al-Harawī’s Version of Menelaus’ Spherics
Title Of Journal
Suhayl
Publication Year
2014
Issue Number
13
Page
149-212
Keywords
Ancient and medieval geometry , Arabic and Syriac translation from Greek , Spherical geometry , Spherical astronomy , Spherics , Menelaus , al-Harawī , al-Māhānī
Notes
براي دانلود و مشاهده مقاله به قسمت لينكهاي مرتبط مراجعه نماييد.
Abstract
This paper is a study, based on four medieval manuscripts, of al-Harawī’s edition of Menelaus’ Spherics, the oldest version of this treatise in our manuscript sources. We provide a critical edition and translation of a number of key passages. We show that this version of the text can be used to elucidate some of Menelaus’ concerns as a mathematician, to study al-Harawī’s work as an editor and as a mathematical scholar, and to understand the early efforts of the ʿAbbāsid translators of technical works into Arabic.
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