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This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes. The first is that of the translation of texts (from Greek into Arabic, then from Arabic into Latin), and close attention is paid to terminology and comparative vocabulary. The other themes are those of the technology of the sphere and of astronomical instruments, which are treated both from the mechanical and mathematical point of view. Several of the articles combine these themes, for instance the study of the self-rotating sphere of al-Khazini (12th century) or that on the transmission of spherical trigonometry to the West. Four articles also contain substantial texts, with translation and commentary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter I: The Arabic Transmission of Archimedes' Sphere and Cylinder and Eutocius' Commentary
- Chapter II: Some Geometrical Theorems Attributed to Arehirnedes and their Appearance in the West
- Chapter III: Remarks on Greek Mathematical Texts in Arabic
- Chapter IV: A Note on the Technical Vocabulary in Eratosthenes' Tract on Mean Proportionals
- Chapter V: Some Remarks on the Almagestum parvum
- Chapter VI: The Astronomy of Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
- Chapter VII: Appendix 1 to item VI: The Manuscripts of Jābir's Treatise
- Chapter VIII: Appendix 2 to item VI: Jābir ibn Aflaḥ and the Establishment of Trigonometry in the West
- Chapter IX: Abū Kāmil on the Pentagon and Decagon
- Chapter X: Pseudo-Euclid on the Position of the Image in Reflection: Interpretations by an Anonymaus Commentator, by Pena and by Kepler
- Chapter XI: Al-Khāzinī's 'Sphere that Rotates by Itself'
- Chapter XII: The sphaera solida and Related Instruments
- Chapter XIII: Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib's Book on the Sphere and its Use
- Chapte XIV: The Qibla- Table Attributed to al-Khāzinī
- Chapter XV: Al-Khāzinī's Balance-Clock and the Chinese Steelyard Clepsydra
- Chapter XVI: The Astronomical Instruments of Jābir ihn Aflaḥ and the Torquetum
- Chapter XVII: A Note on the Horary Quadrant
- Chapter XVIII: Al-Ṣaghānī's Treatise on Projecting the Sphere
- Addenda et corrigenda
- Index