Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / Benjamin Wardhaugh.
Pubblicazione:
Princeton : Princeton university press, 2021.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 403 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Note:
Tit. orig.: The book of wonders: the many lives of Euclid's Elements
Contiene:
Indice: Prologue. Pt. 1. Author: 1. Alexandria: the geometer and the king 2. Elephantine: pot shards 3. Hypsicles: the fourteenth book 4. Theon of Alexandira: editing the Elements 5. Stephanos the scribe: Euclid in Byzantium 6. Al-Hajjaj: Euclid in Baghdad 7. Adelard: the Latin Euclid 8. Erhard Ratdolt: printing the Elements 9. Marget Seymer her hand: owing the Elements10. Edward Bernard: minerva in Oxford. Interlude. Pt. 2. Sage: 1. Plato: the philosopher and the slave 2. Proclus Diadochus: Minerva in Athens 3. Hroswitha of Gandersheim: wisdom and her daughters 4. Rabbi Levi ben Gershom: Euclid in Hebrew 5, Christoph Clavius: the Jesuit Elements 6. Xu Guangqi: Euclid in China 7. Blame not our: geometry on stage 8. Baruch Spinoza: the geometrical manner 9. Anne Lister: improving the mind. Interlude. Pt. 3. Hero: 1. Petechonsis: taxing and overtaxing 2. Dividing the monochord 3. Hyginus: surveying the land 4. Muhammad abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani: dividing the square 5. Lady geometria: depicting the liberal arts 6. Piero della Francesca: seeing in perspective 7. Euclid Speidell: tesching and learning 8. Isaac Newton: mathematical principles. Interlude. Pt. 4. Shadow and mask: 1. Mary Fairfax: Euclid and the staitjacket 2. François Peyrard: manuscript 190 3. Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii: parallels 4. Maggie and Tom: the torture of the mind 5. Simson in Urdu: the Euclidean empire 6. His modern rivals 7. Thomas Little Heath: the true con amore spirit 8. Max Ernst: Euclid's mask 9. Euclidean designs 10. Lambda: curved space, dark energy. Epilogue. Acknowledgements. Image credits. Notes on sources. Select bibliography. Index
