The Wrong Text of Euclid: On Heiberg's Text and its Alternatives

DOI10.1111/j.1600-0498.1996.tb00610.xzbMath0861.01014OpenAlexW2089331112MaRDI QIDQ4879226

Wilbur R. Knorr

Publication date: 13 May 1997

Published in: Centaurus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0498.1996.tb00610.x

zbMATH Keywords

al-ḤajjājIsḥāqThābit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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• The Arabic textual traditions of Euclid's \textit{Elements}
• Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, and the third Arabic translation of Euclid's Elements
• Robert of Chester's (?) redaction of Euclid's Elements, the so-called Adelard II version. Vol. II
• The Medieval Latin Translations from the Arabic of the Elements of Euclid, with Special Emphasis on the Versions of Adelard of Bath
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