Roshdi Rashed

Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding volumes of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, which focused on founding figures and commentators in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the historical and epistemological development of 'infinitesimal mathematics' as it became clearly articulated in the oeuvre of Ibn al-Haytham.

This volume examines the increasing tendency, after the ninth century, to explain mathematical problems inherited from Greek times using the theory of conics. Roshdi Rashed argues that Ibn al-Haytham completes the transformation of this 'area of activity,' into a part of geometry concerned with geometrical constructions, dealing not only with the metrical properties of conic sections but with ways of drawing them and properties of their position and shape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135072537
• Artikelnr.: 39190316

Autorenporträt

Roshdi Rashed is one of the most eminent authorities on Arabic mathematics and the exact sciences. A historian and philosopher of mathematics and science and a highly celebrated epistemologist, he is currently Emeritus Research Director (distinguished class) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and is the Director of the Centre for History of Medieval Science and Philosophy at the University of Paris (Denis Diderot, Paris VII). He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Tokyo and an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Mansourah in Egypt.

J. V. Field, is a historian of science, and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Conic sections and geometrical constructions Chapter 1:
Theory of conics and geometrical constructions: 'completion of the conics'
Chapter 2:Correcting the Bana Masa's Lemma for Apollonius' conics Chapter 3
: Problems of geometrical construction Chapter 4: Practical Geometry:
Measurement Appendix 1: A Research Tradition: the regular heptagon
Appendix 2: Sinan ibn Al-Fati and Al-Qabisi:Optical Mensuration
Supplementary notes Bibliography Indexes