Angles Et Grandeur: D'euclide a Kamal Al-din Al-farisi (Scientia Graeco-arabica, 17)
A scholarly study that traces the history of the concept of angle and its measurement from Euclid to Arabic science. It reads Greek and Arabic texts closely and reconnects the histories of mathematics and philosophy.
Work Information
A study of the concept of angle across the histories of mathematics and philosophy.
The book tracks the concept of angle from antiquity into the medieval Arabic world through close reading and commentary on source texts. It is specialized, but it offers a vivid picture of continuity in the history of knowledge.
Book Information
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Published
- 2015-04-24
- Pages
- 706 pages
- Language
- フランス語
- Size
- 17.15 x 4.45 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781501510700
- ISBN-10
- 1501510703
- Price
- 48008 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Science/History & Philosophy/History of Mathematics
From Antiquity until recently, philosophers and mathematicians have continually discussed the concept of angle and its relation to archimedean and non-archimedean theories of measurement. For the first time, this book traces the history of these discussions in Greek and Arabic, from Euclid to Kamal al-Din al-Farisi, after whom the discussion was not resumed until Newton and Euler. The volume presents first editions of over twenty texts, either in Arabic or Greek and translated into Arabic, of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the time. The texts are here translated into French and supplemented with extensive commentary. The book begins with the definitions and propositions of Euclid on angles and measurement, followed by the Greek commentary tradition represented by Proclus and Simplicius (only extant in Arabic) and the writings of the Arabic mathematicians and philosophers from the 9th through 14th century, placing the fundamental contributions by Avicenna and Ibn al-Haytham into their historical context and showing how numerous successors produced new syntheses of their work.
html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" Roshdi Rashed , Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France.