商品簡介
Lo Bello (mathematics, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA) has updated his earlier translation of al-Nayziri's commentary on Euclid to include a recently discovered manuscript containing a heretofore lost section of the text. In his introduction, Lo Bello describes the manuscript sources in Latin and Arabic and their relationship to an unknown early translation from Greek into Arabic. He also reviews the discussion concerning authorship. This commentary is important not only for the remarks made by al-Nayrizi but for the fact that al-Nayrizi repeats the exegesis of other writers, particularly that of Simplicious, which has been lost. The fact that Lo Bello understands both Arabic and geometry enhances his elegant translation. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Anthony Lo Bello is Professor of Mathematics at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. He received his Ph. D. degree from Yale University in 1975. In 2003, Brill published three of his books on the transmission of Euclid's Elements in the Middle Ages.
