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 (10th11th century). Ménélaüs d'Alexandrie (Ier siècle de notre ère) est l'auteur du traité Des figures sphériques et d'un traité de statique des fluides. Ces deux uvres nous sont parvenues seulement en traduction arabe. On trouvera dans le présent livre une editio princeps du second texte de Ménélaüs, ainsi que le commentaire nouvellement découvert du philosophe et savant Muammad ibn al-Haytham (XeXIe siècle) à ce dernier.

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

Klappentext

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).

Zusammenfassung

The series *Scientia Graeco-Arabica *is devoted to the study of scientific and philosophical texts from the Classical and the Islamic world handed down in Arabic. Through critical text editions and monographs it provides access to the topics of inquiry in which ancient science presented itself and developed over time in a continuous tradition between Antiquity and the modern period. All editions are accompanied by translations and philological and explanatory notes.

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