Hero of Alexandria and Mordekhai Komtino: The Encounter between Mathematics in Hebrew and the Greek Metrological Corpus in Fifteenth-Century Constantinople.
Mordekhai ben Eliezer Komtino (1402-1482) was a well-known scholar in the Judeo-Byzantine world--philosopher, exegete, mathematician, and astronomer. Among his works was Sefer ha-Heshbon we-ha-middot. This paper deals with the geometrical part of that work. Although Euclid is sometimes quoted by the...
| Publicado en: | Aleph: Historical Studies in Science & Judaism Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 181 - 263 |
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Indiana University Press
2018
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