Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science The American University in Cairo
Abstract
The first part of the paper describes the Persian translation of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr Kitāb Uqlīdis by Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book i. Part of a larger encyclopedic collection, al-Shīrāzī’s translation continued to be read for centuries. As evidence of the work’s influence, al-Shīrāzī’s appendix to book i was included in a nineteenth century printed edition of Muḥammad Barakat’s commentary on book i of al-Ṭūsī’s treatise. I discuss this later use of al-Shīrāzī’s appendix in the second part of the paper.
De Young, G. (2012). Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Appendix to Book I of his Persian Translation of Euclid: Text, Context, Influence. Journal for the History of Science, 9(2), 1-21.
MLA
Gregg De Young. "Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Appendix to Book I of his Persian Translation of Euclid: Text, Context, Influence". Journal for the History of Science, 9, 2, 2012, 1-21.
HARVARD
De Young, G. (2012). 'Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Appendix to Book I of his Persian Translation of Euclid: Text, Context, Influence', Journal for the History of Science, 9(2), pp. 1-21.
VANCOUVER
De Young, G. Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Appendix to Book I of his Persian Translation of Euclid: Text, Context, Influence. Journal for the History of Science, 2012; 9(2): 1-21.
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