Raf‘ al-h·ijāb ‘an wujūh a‘māl al-h·isāb li Ibn al-Bannā al-Murrākušı̄ (†721/1321)
✍ Scribed by Ahmed Djebbar
- Book ID
- 102568633
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 117 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0315-0860
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✦ Synopsis
REVIEWS
HM 25
on the puzzle of the identity of Ocreatus is characteristically apposite and elegant. A. Simi and L. Toti Rigatelli write illuminatingly on some 14th-and 15th-century texts on practical geometry. P. Kunitzsch writes in ''The Peacock's Tail'' on the adoption of the names given to some of the theorems of Euclid's Elements, some of them introduced into the West possibly, it seems, by Adelard of Bath, but adapted as late as the 14th century.
There is a Byzantine contribution from C. J. Scriba, on a 15th-century text which contains a discussion of a stock problem about a woman who takes eggs to market.
M. Folkerts discusses the Rithmomachia of Werinher of Tegernsee with a helpful sense of its place in the Rithmomachia story. He discusses the evidence of Werinher's authorship of the content and provides an edition from MS. Addit. 22790 of the British Library. J. van Maanen explores ''The 'Double-Meaning' Method for Dating Mathematical Texts.'' He means by this that material in a text may indirectly indicate the date of its composition; for example, where 16th-and 17th-century texts use year-numbers in their examples. He is perhaps a little over-sanguine about the possibilities of such devices, but this is a useful discussion.
P. Bockstaele and H. J. M. Bos contribute a pair of papers on 17th-century themes. P. Bockstaele writes on ''A Challenge to the Mathematicians of the University of Leuven as a New Year's Gift for 1639'' which, he alleges, has a good deal to tell us about the practice of mathematics at the University of Leuven in its day. H. J. M. Bos discusses Johann Molther's Problema deliacum of 1619, which deals with the duplication of the cube and advances a fresh solution. This is, then, an immensely rich volume, in which the papers are often groundbreaking, are uniformly of high quality, and include a number of definitive statements of the status quaestionis on their topics.