Three short texts related to Euclid's Elements

Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 153v-156v

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The record is made up of Ff. 153v-156v. It was created in 5 Jumādá II 1214. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Three short texts related to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī's (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274) annotated edition (تحرير) of the Arabic version of Euclid's (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC) Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول), perhaps by al-Ṭūsī himself.

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  • (1) Statement on Establishing the Proof for the judgement (? حُكْم) mentioned in the Fifteenth Proposition of Book Twelve of this book [viz. the Elements ] (القول في إقامة البرهان على الحكم المذكور في الشكل الخامس عشر من المقالة الثانية عشر من هذا الكتاب; ff. 153v-155v);
  • (2) A note on additional text found at the end of Book Fifteen in some manuscripts (f. 155v);
  • (3) Discussion of the Euclid's Five Aims in the Elements , with an analysis of the aims of each of the fifteen books (ff. 155v-156v).

Begins (f. 153v, lines 2-4):

القول في إقامة البرهان على الحكم المذكور في الشكل الخامس عشر من المقالة الثانية عشر

من هذا الكتاب وهو قول نسبة الكرة إلى الكرة كنسبة القطر إلى القطر ثلثه على الوجه

الصحيح الذي نقرر عندي مبينًا على بعض قواعد أبلونيوس وهو مرتب على مقدمتين ...

Ends (f. 156v, lines 11-14):

... وأما المقالة الرابعة عشر

ففي نسب هذه المجسمات الخمسة بعضها إلى بعض وسطوحها وأحسابها بعضها إلى بعض و

معرفة كميات الخطوط المحيطة بهذه الأجسام وأما المقالة الخامسة عشر ففي كيفية عمل بعض المجسمات في بعض

وعلى بعض والله أعلم

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Ff. 153v-156v
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Geometrical texts related to Euclid's Elements
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Delhi Arabic 1909, ff 153v-156v
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Three short texts related to Euclid's Elements
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