L'hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction
Menelaus of Alexandria (1st century CE) is the author of the treatise Sphaerica and as of a treatise on fluid statics. Both of these works only survive in Arabic translations. This book provides an editio princeps of Menelaus’s second text as well as the recently discovered commentary thereon, written by the philosopher and scholar Muhammad ibn al-Haytham (10th–11th century).

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L'hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction
Menelaus of Alexandria (1st century CE) is the author of the treatise Sphaerica and as of a treatise on fluid statics. Both of these works only survive in Arabic translations. This book provides an editio princeps of Menelaus’s second text as well as the recently discovered commentary thereon, written by the philosopher and scholar Muhammad ibn al-Haytham (10th–11th century).

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L'hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction

L'hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction

by Roshdi Rashed
L'hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction

L'hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction

by Roshdi Rashed

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Menelaus of Alexandria (1st century CE) is the author of the treatise Sphaerica and as of a treatise on fluid statics. Both of these works only survive in Arabic translations. This book provides an editio princeps of Menelaus’s second text as well as the recently discovered commentary thereon, written by the philosopher and scholar Muhammad ibn al-Haytham (10th–11th century).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110698152
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 08/24/2020
Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica , #27
Pages: 173
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Language: French
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris, Frankreich / Universität Tokio, Japan.

Roshdi Rashed, CNRS, Paris, France / University of Tokyo, Japan.
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