Gerard of Cremona's Translation of the Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry : With an Introductory Account of the Twenty-Two Early Extant Arabic Manuscripts of the Elements / edited by Anthony Lo Bello.
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TextSeries: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 | Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts, Medieval Philosophy, Mathematics, and Science ; 2.Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2003Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- With an Introductory Account of the Twenty-Two Early Extant Arabic Manuscripts of the Elements
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anthony Lo Bello's Gerard of Cremona's Translation of Book I of the Commentary of al-Nayrizi on Euclid's Elements of Geometry is the first modern translation of Gerard of Cremona's (1114-1187) Latin version of al-Nayrizi's famous Arabic commentary. Lo Bello gives an introductory account of the twenty-two early extant Arabic manuscripts of the Elements, an annotated English translation of Gerard's translation of al-Nayrizi's commentary, and finally a critical analysis of the idiosyncrasies of Gerard's method of translation. The Three Volumes are also available as set (ISBN 0 391 04197 5).
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