De Young, Gregg (Author)
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Volume: 15
Pages: 171-238
This paper present an initial case study in editing diagrams from medieval mathematical manuscripts. The collection of alternative diagrams ascribed to “Ḥajjāj’’ — presumably al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, whose translation of Euclid’s Elements into Arabic is not extant in its pristine form, because it offers a reasonablly small number of diagrams to study and these diagrams seem likely to be of some interest to historians of mathematics. In the introduction to the edition, these diagrams are situated in relation to the known features of the Arabic transmission of the Elements attributed to al-Ḥajjāj. Two appendices discuss several technical issues likely to confront anyone who wishes to edit medieval mathematical diagrams and survey some recent contributions to the study of historical mathematical diagrams.
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