TY - BOOK ID - 78496370 TI - Menelaus' ›Spherics‹ AU - Rāshid, Rushdī AU - Papadopoulos, Athanase PY - 2017 SN - 3110569876 3110571420 9783110569872 9783110571424 9783110568233 3110568233 9783110571431 3110571439 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Geodesics (Mathematics) KW - Sphere. KW - Geometry, Differential. KW - Curves on surfaces KW - Surfaces KW - Curved surfaces KW - Geometry KW - Shapes KW - Surfaces, Curves on KW - Differential geometry KW - Geometry, Solid KW - Orbs KW - Geometry, Differential KW - Global analysis (Mathematics) KW - Mathematics KW - Mathematical models. KW - Menelaus, KW - مانالاوس KW - Mānālāwus KW - Ménélaos, KW - Menélaus, KW - Millaeus, KW - Ménélas, KW - Ménélaüs, KW - Menelao, KW - Menelaos, KW - Arabic mathematics. KW - Greek geometry. KW - History of non-Euclidean geometry. KW - Spherics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78496370 AB - Despite its importance in the history of Ancient science, Menelaus’ Spherics is still by and large unknown. This treatise, which lies at the foundation of spherical geometry, is lost in Greek but has been preserved in its Arabic versions. The reader will find here, for the first time edited and translated into English, the essentials of this tradition, namely: a fragment of an early Arabic translation and the first Arabic redaction of the Spherics composed by al-Māhānī /al-Harawī, together with a historical and mathematical study of Menelaus’ treatise. With this book, a new and important part of the Greek and Arabic legacy to the history of mathematics comes to light. This book will be an indispensable acquisition for any reader interested in the history of Ancient geometry and science and, more generally, in Greek and Arabic science and culture. ER -