On Arithmetic and Geometry An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 1 & 2
رسائل إخوان الصفاء وخلان الوفاء (١-٢) : الرسالة الولى والرسالة الثانية في العدد والهندسة، من القسم الاول في العلوم الرياضية التعليمية
This volume is the fifth of the series, consisting of the first critical edition of the Rasa 'il in its original Arabic, complete with the fully annotated English translation. Prepared by Dr Nader El-Bizri, Epistles 1 and 2 (on arithmetic and geometry) present technical and epistemic analyses o...
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Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies
07 February 2013
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| Schriftenreihe: | Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This volume is the fifth of the series, consisting of the first critical edition of the Rasa 'il in its original Arabic, complete with the fully annotated English translation. Prepared by Dr Nader El-Bizri, Epistles 1 and 2 (on arithmetic and geometry) present technical and epistemic analyses of mathematical concepts and their metaphysical underpinnings, in terms of investigating the properties of numbers and of geometric magnitudes, based primarily on the traditions of Nicomachus of Geresa and of Euclid as interpreted by the Ikhwãn. With a Pythagorean construal of the ultimate principles of mathematics within the symbolic order of mysticism, and inspired by their own ontological outlook on the articles of faith in Islam, the Ikhwãn view arithmetic and geometry through a monotheistic spiritual lens. This informed their treatment of mathematical knowledge, in pedagogic and heuristic terms, as part of the essential disciplines of the quadrivium, which aimed at preparing novices to study logic, then sciences of nature and the soul, before graduating to the lofty topics of theology and metaphysics. The volume also provides an overview of the mathematical sciences within the Islamic intellectual milieu, and of the tenth-century urban culture of Mesopotamian and Syrian locales. |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält bibliographische Angaben (S. 165-175), sowie verschiedene Verzeichnisse (S. 177-187, 151-157 [arabisch]). |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 187, 157 S. Diagramme 23,4 x 15,6 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780199655601 |