Sidoli, Nathan Camillo (Author)
Kusuba, Takanori (Author)
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Volume: 8
Pages: 9--46
We examine the Arabic edition of Theodosius's Spherics composed by Na?ir al-Din al-?usi. Through a comparison of this text with earlier Arabic and Greek versions and a study of his editorial remarks, we develop a better understanding of al-?usi editorial project. We show that al-?usi's goal was to revitalize the text of Theodosius's Spherics by considering it firstly as a product of the mathematical sciences and secondarily as a historically contingent work. His editorial practices involved adding a number of additional hypotheses and auxiliary lemmas to demonstrate theorems used in the Spherics, reworking some propositions to clarify the underlying mathematical argument and reorganizing the proof structure in a few propositions. For al-?usi, the detailed preservation of the words and drawings was less important than a mathematically coherent presentation of the arguments and diagrams.
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