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PublisherSpringer New York

ISBN-100387972161

ISBN-139780387972169

eBay Product ID (ePID)537519

Product Key Features

Number of PagesC, 890 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameApollonius : Conics Books Five to Seven - The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa

Publication Year1990

SubjectGeometry / Analytic, Geometry / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorG. J. Toomer

Subject AreaMathematics

SeriesSources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight64 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN89-026277

Series Volume Number9

Number of Volumes2 vols.

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentContents: Introduction: The Ancient Mathematical Background. Descriptions of Manuscripts. Editorial Principles. Conics: Text and Translation.- Notes on the Text and Translation.- Appendices.- Figures.- Bibliography and Indexes.

SynopsisWith the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub lish the /llost books" of the Conics of Apollonius in the form which is the closest we have to the original, the Arabic version of the Banu Musil. Un til now this has been accessible only in Halley's Latin translation of 1710 (and translations into other languages entirely dependent on that). While I yield to none in my admiration for Halley's edition of the Conics, it is far from satisfying the requirements of modern scholarship. In particular, it does not contain the Arabic text. I hope that the present edition will not only remedy those deficiencies, but will also serve as a foundation for the study of the influence of the Conics in the medieval Islamic world. I acknowledge with gratitude the help of a number of institutions and people. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, by the award of one of its Fellowships for 1985-86, enabled me to devote an unbroken year to this project, and to consult essential material in the Bodleian Li brary, Oxford, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Corpus Christi Col lege, Cambridge, appointed me to a Visiting Fellowship in Trinity Term, 1988, which allowed me to make good use of the rich resources of both the University Library, Cambridge, and the Bodleian Library., With the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub- lish the /llost books" of the Conics of Apollonius in the form which is the closest we have to the original, the Arabic version of the Banu Musil. Un- til now this has been accessible only in Halley's Latin translation of 1710 (and translations into other languages entirely dependent on that). While I yield to none in my admiration for Halley's edition of the Conics, it is far from satisfying the requirements of modern scholarship. In particular, it does not contain the Arabic text. I hope that the present edition will not only remedy those deficiencies, but will also serve as a foundation for the study of the influence of the Conics in the medieval Islamic world. I acknowledge with gratitude the help of a number of institutions and people. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, by the award of one of its Fellowships for 1985-86, enabled me to devote an unbroken year to this project, and to consult essential material in the Bodleian Li- brary, Oxford, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Corpus Christi Col- lege, Cambridge, appointed me to a Visiting Fellowship in Trinity Term, 1988, which allowed me to make good use of the rich resources of both the University Library, Cambridge, and the Bodleian Library.

LC Classification NumberQA440-699