TY - CHAP
T1 - Chapter 3 The Path to Halley
AU - Fried, Michael N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - The Banū Mūsā text is central to our story, as it was Halley’s principal source for his edition of Books V–VII and the basis of his reconstruction of Book VIII. The manuscript was acquired sometime in the middle of the 9th century by the three sons of Mūsā b. Shākir, Muḥammad, Aḥmad, and al-Ḥasan, otherwise known simply as the Banū Mūsā, “The sons of Mūsā.” Under the sponsorship of the Banū Mūsā, the text was translated into Arabic by Thābit b. Qurra (836–901). The Greek original, subsequently, was lost, leaving to posterity only this Arabic version of Books V–VII. However, there was a long and crucial delay until even this Arabic translation of the later books of the Conics became fully available to mathematically minded readers in the Latin west.
AB - The Banū Mūsā text is central to our story, as it was Halley’s principal source for his edition of Books V–VII and the basis of his reconstruction of Book VIII. The manuscript was acquired sometime in the middle of the 9th century by the three sons of Mūsā b. Shākir, Muḥammad, Aḥmad, and al-Ḥasan, otherwise known simply as the Banū Mūsā, “The sons of Mūsā.” Under the sponsorship of the Banū Mūsā, the text was translated into Arabic by Thābit b. Qurra (836–901). The Greek original, subsequently, was lost, leaving to posterity only this Arabic version of Books V–VII. However, there was a long and crucial delay until even this Arabic translation of the later books of the Conics became fully available to mathematically minded readers in the Latin west.
KW - Ancient Text
KW - Arabic Version
KW - Classical Mathematic
KW - Classical Text
KW - Thirteenth Century
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85146061442
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-0146-9_3
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-0146-9_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85146061442
T3 - Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
SP - 13
EP - 15
BT - Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
PB - Springer
ER -