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The Arabic Version of Euclid’s Optics

Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary Volume I

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Elaheh Kheirandish

    1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SOURCES, volume 16)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to the Texts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xvii-xvii
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    2. The Arabic Versions

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages xix-xxv

    3. Description and Analysis of Manuscripts

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages xxvi-xxix

    4. Editorial Procedures and Apparatus

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages xxix-xxxiii

    5. List of Manuscripts

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages xxxiv-liii

    6. The Arabic Tradition

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages liv-lxi

    7. Textual Transmission

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages lxi-lxv

  3. Edition and Translation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Kitāb Uqlīdis fī Ikhtilāf al-manāẓir

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages 2-225

    3. Iṣlāḥ al-Manāẓir

      • Elaheh Kheirandish
      Pages 226-229

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 230-247
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About this book

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. The Optics is particularly interesting in that Euclid's text was considerably transformed in the process of translation into Arabic "equivalents"; in addition, several of the Arabic editions of Euclid's text (c. 300 BC) contained liberal admixtures of a much later book by Ptolemy (c. 200 AD) of the same title. What was referred to as "Euclid's Optics," the "Kitab Uqlidis fi Ikhtilaf al-manazir," thus became as much an exposition of an Arabic version of a visual theory as a translation of Euclid's ideas on the subject. In preparing this edition, Dr. Kheirandish has thus not only sorted out the various manuscript versions of Al-Manazir, but also related and unrelated texts that were often confused with it.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Elaheh Kheirandish

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Arabic Version of Euclid’s Optics

  • Book Subtitle: Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary Volume I

  • Authors: Elaheh Kheirandish

  • Series Title: Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1452-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98523-7Published: 21 December 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7150-5Published: 08 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1452-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-6315

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LXV, 247

  • Topics: Mathematics, general

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