Zonta, Mauro (Author)
Freudenthal, Gad (Author)
Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Volume: 9
Pages: 189--224
In the 1120s, the Jewish philosopher and scientist Abraham Bar ?iyya (d. ca. 1136) wrote a Hebrew encyclopedia, Yesodei ha-tevunah u-migdal ha-?emunah a detailed chapter on mathematics is extant from this work. One source of its account of the nature of number has long been known to be Nicomachus of Gerasa's Introduction to Arithmetic. Three Arabic versions of Nicomachus are known to have existed: ?abib Ibn Bahriz's translation from the Syriac, now lost; al-Kindi's revision of the latter, lost in Arabic but extant in a Hebrew translation by Qalonymos ben Qalonymos; and Thabit Ibn Qurra's translation from the Greek. A close comparison of Bar ?iyya's text with the others and with the Greek original leads to the conclusion that Bar ?iyya used ?abib Ibn Bahriz's Arabic translation in its unrevised form and had no contact with Thabit Ibn Qurra's translation.
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