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).
SUMMARY
Frontmatter (Free access Pdf), I
Table of contents (Free access Pdf), VII
Introduction.
L’hydrostatique de Ménélaüs et son commentaire au Xe siècle, p. 1
Chapter I.
Le traité de Ménélaüs Sur les procédés ingénieux par lesquels on connait la quantité de chacun de plusieurs corps mélangés, p. 25
Chapter II.
Le commentaire du traité de Ménélaüs par Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Haytham, p. 93
Document, p. 144
Mentioned works, p. 161
Index of names, p. 165
:: De Gruyter, series Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 27
:: August 24, 2020
:: Languages: French, Arabic
:: Pages: 166, 16 Illustrations
:: Keywords: Menelaus the Mathematician; Muhammad ibn al-Haytham; Ancient hydrostatics; Greek science
:: Formats
- Electronic, ISBN: 9783110698985
- Paper, ISBN: 9783110698152
