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A New Source of Evidence for the Lost Arabic Translations of Euclid’s Elements

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An Arabic commentary found in Hyderabad, India, offers new insight into the nature of the early Arabic version of Euclid’s Elements attributed to al-Ḥajjāj. Here we introduce this work and offer some examples of the kinds of material it offers us for reconstructing this now-lost Arabic source which is important for our understanding of the transmission process of Greek mathematics into Arabic during the second/eighth century.

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De Young, G. (2004). A New Source of Evidence for the Lost Arabic Translations of Euclid’s Elements . In: Grattan-Guinness, I., Yadav, B.S. (eds) History of the Mathematical Sciences. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-16-3_12

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