Arabic in the Sciences
Euclid's Elements in Arabic
أصول إقليدس بالعربيّة
Euclid's Elements, a Greek book of geometry, was put into Arabic by al-Hajjaj ibn Matar and then by Ishaq ibn Hunayn, revised by Thabit ibn Qurra. From Arabic came its first complete Latin translations in the twelfth century, the basis of the first printed Euclid (Venice, 1482).
- Author
- al-Hajjaj ibn Matar and Ishaq ibn Hunayn (Arabic translations, 9th century)
- Field
- Mathematics
- Arabic title
- كتاب الأصول لإقليدس، في ترجمتيه العربيّتين
- Latin title
- Elementa (Adelard I; Gerard of Cremona; Campanus: Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis, Venice 1482)
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Sources
- Menso Folkerts, Euclid in Medieval Europe (Winnipeg, 1989)
- Sonja Brentjes, «Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar», Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
- Smithsonian Libraries: Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis (Venice: Ratdolt, 1482)
- موسوعة تاريخ العلوم العربية، إشراف رشدي راشد: أندريه آلار، «العلوم الرياضيّة العربيّة في الغرب اللاتينيّ»، ج٢ ص٧٠٤–٧١٤
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