TEXT

Kitāb handasat al-ʿaql

Title (arabic)

كتاب هندسة العقل

Title (translit)

Kitāb handasat al-ʿaql

Alias

Kitāb handasaẗ al-ʿaql

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

(From MAMS2): "According to the geometric treatise of Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, "intellectual geometry" is the continuous geometry of Euclid's "Elements", unlike "sensual geometry" that is atomistic geometry."

ismi_id

92330

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.

Pp. 45 (no. 93), M1.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol.. Leipzig: Vogel.

Pp. 151, 173, 278, 358.