Article ID: CBB513331410

Hero of Alexandria and Mordekhai Komtino: The Encounter between Mathematics in Hebrew and the Greek Metrological Corpus in Fifteenth-Century Constantinople (2018)

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Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtino (1402–1482) was a well-known scholar in the Judeo-Byzantine world—philosopher, exegete, mathematician, and astronomer. Among his works was Sefer ha-Ḥeshbon we-ha-middot. This paper deals with the geometrical part of that work. Although Euclid is sometimes quoted by the author, Komtino's geometry is not Euclidean. It comes from the field of metrological geometry ("practical geometry"). In addition to the famous Hebrew geometry composed by Abraham bar Ḥiyya in the twelfth century, Ḥibbur ha-meshiḥah we-ha-tishboret, Komtino also had before him a Greek manuscript containing the unique extant copy of Hero of Alexandria's Metrica (first or second century) and other metrological writings attributed to him.

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Authors & Contributors
Glasner, Ruth
Christianidis, Jean P.
Megremi, Athanasia
Elior, Ofer
Sialaros, Michalis
Laird, W. R.
Concepts
Mathematics
Hebrew language
Greek language
Arabic language
Geometry
Transmission of texts
Time Periods
Medieval
Ancient
Early modern
Renaissance
9th century
16th century
Places
Greece
Europe
Toledo (Spain)
Serbia
Spain
Italy
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