ISBN: 9780387985237 - the arabic version of euclid’s optics: edited and translated with historical introduction and commentary volume i (sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences, 16, band 16) (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. LXV, 246 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. N04410 9780387985237 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Like all classical Greek texts on science, Euclid's works on optics initially came to the West mainly through medieval Arabic texts and commentaries. While several Greek versions of the Optika were discovered and translated as early as the sixteenth century, sorting out what may have been Euclid's original has not been easy. This book presents a critical translation of an Arabic texts and of Arabic commentaries on the text, and places the whole in a historical context.…