The commentary of al-Nayrizi on Books II-IV of Euclid's Elements of geometry : 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

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The commentary of al-Nayrizi on Books II-IV of Euclid's Elements of geometry : 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

by Anthony Lo Bello

(Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts, . Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition / edited by Robert M. Berchman, John F. Finamore ; v. 8)

Brill, 2009

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Sharḥ Kitāb Uqlīdīs

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Bibliography: p. [209]-212

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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.

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