| 期刊全稱 | Alfonso‘s Rectifying the Curved | | 期刊簡(jiǎn)稱 | ?A Fourteenth-Centur | | 影響因子2023 | Ruth Glasner,Avinoam Baraness | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/153/152362/152362.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | Explores one of the most interesting Hebrew geometrical texts of the medieval period.Offers English translation for the first time.Provides introduction and detailed commentary | | 學(xué)科分類 | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences | | 圖書封面 |  | | 影響因子 | .This volume offers a new English translation, introduction, and detailed commentary on?.Sefer Meyasher ‘Aqov., (.The Rectifying of the Curved.), a 14th-century Hebrew treatise on the foundation of geometry. The book is a mixture of two genres: philosophical discussion and formal, Euclidean-type geometrical writing. A central issue is the use of motion and superposition in geometry, which is analyzed in depth through dialog with earlier Arab mathematicians...The author, Alfonso, was identified by Gita Gluskina (the editor of the 1983 Russian edition) as Alfonso of Valladolid, the converted Jew Abner of Burgos. Alfonso lived in Castile, rather far from the leading cultural centers of his time, but nonetheless at the crossroad of three cultures. He was raised in the Jewish tradition and like many Sephardic Jewish intellectuals was versed in Greek-Arabic philosophy and science. He also had connections with some Christian nobles and towards the end of his life converted to Christianity. Driven by his ambition to solve the problem of the quadrature of the circle, as well as other open geometrical problems, Alfonso acquired surprisingly wide knowledge and became familiar with several epi | | Pindex | Book 2021 |
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