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Robert of Chester’s Redaction of Euclid’s Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version

Volume I

Birkhäuser

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  1. Hubert L. L. Busard

    1. Venlo, Netherlands

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  2. Menso Folkerts

    1. Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Museumsinsel, Germany

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Part of the book series: Science Networks. Historical Studies (SNHS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-9
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 11-31

  3. Description of the Manuscripts

    1. Description of the Manuscripts

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 33-82

  4. Relationships between the Manuscripts

    1. Relationships between the Manuscripts

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 83-89

  5. Editorial Remarks

    1. Editorial Remarks

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 91-109

  6. Euclides, Elementa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. 〈Liber I〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 113-130

    3. 〈Liber II〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 131-136

    4. 〈Liber III〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 137-152

    5. 〈Liber IV〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 153-159

    6. 〈Liber V〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 161-170

    7. 〈Liber VI〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 171-185

    8. 〈Liber VII〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 187-200

    9. 〈Liber VIII〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 201-210

    10. 〈Liber IX〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 211-222

    11. 〈Liber X〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 223-263

    12. 〈Liber XI〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 265-292

    13. 〈Liber XII〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 293-309

    14. 〈Liber XIII〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 311-328

    15. 〈Liber XIV〉

      • Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts
      Pages 329-339
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About this book

The Latin "Version II", till now attributed to Adelard of Bath, is edited here for the first time. It was the most influential Euclid text in the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries. As the large number of manuscripts and the numerous quotations in other scientific and philosophical texts show, it was far better known than the three Euclid translations made from the Arabic in the 12th century (Adelard of Bath, version I; Hermann of Carinthia; Gerard of Cremona). Version II became the basis of later reworkings, in which the enunciations were taken over, but new proofs supplied; the most important text of this kind is the redaction made by Campanus in the late 1250s, which became the standard Latin "Euclid" in the later Middle Ages. The introduction deals with the questions of when and by whom version II was written. Since Marshall Clagett's fundamental article (1953) it has been generally accepted that version II is one of three Euclid texts attributable to Adelard of Bath. But a comparison of the text of version II with those of versions I and III yields little or no reason to assume that Adelard was the author of version II. Version II must have been written later than version I and before version III; its author was acquainted with Euclid texts of the Boethius tradition and with two of those transmitted from Arabic, version I (almost certainly by Adelard) and the version by Hermann of Carinthia.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Venlo, Netherlands

    Hubert L. L. Busard

  • Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Museumsinsel, Germany

    Menso Folkerts

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Robert of Chester’s Redaction of Euclid’s Elements, the so-called Adelard II Version

  • Book Subtitle: Volume I

  • Authors: Hubert L. L. Busard, Menso Folkerts

  • Series Title: Science Networks. Historical Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8636-9

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-2658-6Published: 03 April 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9708-2Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8636-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1421-6329

  • Series E-ISSN: 2296-6080

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 430

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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