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Kitāb al-uṣūl al-handasiyyah li-Uqlīdis

Title (arabic)

كتاب الأصول الهندسيّة لأقليدس

Title (translit)

Kitāb al-uṣūl al-handasiyyah li-Uqlīdis

Alias

Muḫtaṣar Uqlīdis
أصول الهندسة
أصول علم الهندسة
Mukhtaṣar Uqlīdis

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Other version

Notes

This is the longer version of the summary of Euclid's Elements, which is a part of the mathematics section of the Shifāʾ.

ismi_id

466078

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 124 (no. 317), M1.

Ibn Sīnā, Al-Ḥusayn. 1976. Al-Šifāʾ. 1. Al-Riyāḍīyāt. Uṣūl Al-Handasah. Eds. A.I. Sabra and Luṭfī, ʻAbd. Cairo: Al-Hayʾa al-Miṣrīya al-ʿĀmma li-l-Kitāb.

The standard edition; but for corrections, see A.I. Sabra, “The Sources of Avicenna’s Geometry in
Kitāb al-Shifā’.” In: Journal for the History of
Arabic Science, 4 (1980), pp. 241-53 [in Arabic].