The Commentary of Nayrizi on Books II-IV of Euclid's Elements of Geometry (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition)

Lo Bello, Anthony

Brill Academic Pub（2009/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 215 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004173897
• DDC分類 516

基本説明

With a Translation of That Portion of Book I missing from MS Leiden Or. 399.1 but present in the Newly Discovered Qom Manuscript edited by Rüdiger Arnzen.

Full Description

The Commentary of al-Nayrizi (circa 920) on Euclid's Elements of Geometry occupies an important place both in the history of mathematics and of philosophy, particularly Islamic philosophy. It is a compilation of original work by al-Nayrizi and of translations and commentaries made by others, such as Heron. It is the most influential Arabic mathematical manuscript in existence and a principle vehicle whereby mathematics was reborn in the Latin West. Furthermore, the Commentary on Euclid by the Platonic philosopher Simplicius, entirely reproduced by al-Nayrizi, and nowhere else extant, is essential to the study of the attempt to prove Euclid's Fifth Postulate from the preceding four. Al-Nayrizi was one of the two main sources from which Albertus Magnus (1193-1280), the Doctor Universalis, learned mathematics. This work presents an annotated English translation of Books II-IV and of a hitherto lost portion of Book I.