Article ID: CBB978348497

The Commentator's Craft: Building a Mathematical Commentary from Quotations (2019)

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An anonymous commentary on Euclid's Elements, preserved in two manuscripts in Hyderabad, India, presents an interesting example of a mathematical commentary composed almost entirely from quotations drawn from earlier commentators. The author most frequently used is al-Anṭākī. Several other commentators are named – Ibn al-Haytham and al-Nayrīzī are frequently mentioned, as well as Ibn Hūd. The commentary reveals an author well-versed in the Euclidean tradition who quotes both accurately and intelligently. Image 1

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Authors & Contributors
De Young, Gregg
Rashed, Roshdi
Brentjes, Sonja
Elior, Ofer
Abdeljaouad, Mahdi
Smith, A. Mark
Journals
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Historia Mathematica
Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
R. Arnzen
Presses Universitaires de France
Brill Academic
Princeton University
American Philosophical Society
Concepts
Mathematics
Commentaries
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Geometry
Transmission of texts
Translations
People
Euclid
Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan
al-Nayrīzī
al-Ṭūsī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad Naṣīr al-Dīn
Ptolemy
Ibn al-Sarī, Aḥmad
Time Periods
Medieval
11th century
Ancient
13th century
12th century
10th century
Places
Greece
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