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Physique --- Philosophie médiévale --- Sciences médiévales --- Physics --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Science, Medieval --- Philosophie --- Philosophy --- History --- Averroës, --- Aristote, --- Aristotle. --- Contribution à la physique --- Averroes, --- Ibnu Rusjd, --- Ibnu Rosjid, --- Ibn Rushd, --- Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, --- Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Walīd, --- Ibn Roshd, Abū el-Walīd, --- Abū al-Walīd ibn Rushd, --- Abuʼl-Walid Muhammad bin Rusjd, --- Bin Rusjd, Muhammad bin Ahmad, --- Abū el-Walīd ibn Roshd, --- Ibn Rashad, --- Ibn Roshd, --- Ibn Rochd, --- Alṿalid ibn Rushd, --- Averroè, --- Ibn Rušd, --- Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd, --- Averróis, --- Ibn Rushd, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad, --- Ibn Ruschd, --- Ibn-i Rushd, --- ‏ابن رشد،‏ --- Ibn-e-Rushd, --- Medieval science --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Averroës, --- Aristoteles. --- Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd, --- Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, --- Averroès --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Science, Medieval. --- Philosophie médiévale. --- Sciences médiévales. --- Philosophie. --- Contribution à la physique. --- Aristote --- Physics - Philosophy - History - To 1500. --- Averroës, - 1126-1198. --- Aristotle. - Physics. --- Philosophie médiévale. --- Sciences médiévales. --- Averroès --- Contribution à la physique.

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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 episodes in Greek and Arabic geometry that historians usually consider not to have been known in the West in the fourteenth century. Sefer Meyasher 'Aqov reflects his wide and deep erudition in mathematics and philosophy, and provides new evidence on cultural transmission around the Mediterranean.

Mathematics. --- History. --- Geometry. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Mathematics --- Euclid's Elements --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Math --- Science --- Geometry --- Mathematics, Greek

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Geometry --- Mathematics --- History --- geschiedenis --- wiskunde --- geometrie

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