Gerard of Cremona’s Translation of the Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry

Gerard of Cremona’s Translation of the Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry
Author: Anthony Lo Bello
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-08-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004453652

This book provides an annotated English translation of Gerard of Cremona’s Latin version of Book I of al-Nayrizi's Commentary on Euclid’s Elements. Lo Bello concludes with a critical analysis of the idiosyncrasies of Gerard’s method of translation.

Mathematizing Space

Mathematizing Space
Author: Vincenzo De Risi
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319121022

This book collects the papers of the conference held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012, on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age'. The conference was a joint effort by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Centro die Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (Pisa).

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
Author: Euclid
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 574
Release: 1956-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780486600901

Contains the complete English text of all thirteen books of the "Elements," along with critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition.

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
Author: Thomas L. Heath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107480426

First published in 1926, this book contains the first volume of a three-volume English translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements.

A Source Book in Medieval Science

A Source Book in Medieval Science
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 890
Release: 1974
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674823600

This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing "science" in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology.