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The History of a Text: Tradition, Time and Opportunity

In: Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Geometry

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  • Wilbur Richard Knorr

    (Stanford University, Program in the History of Science)

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About fifteen centuries separate Archimedes’ composition of the Dimension of the Circle from its elaboration by medieval Arabic and Latin scholars. During that vast interval the text passed through the hands of countless pedagogues, editors, commentators, translators and paraphrasers. The unsatisfactory fragment that survives in the Greek corpus of Archimedes bears witness to the magnitude of the transformation this text underwent. But our survey of the extant evidence has made possible a reconstruction of the stages in this process.

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  • Wilbur Richard Knorr, 1989. "The History of a Text: Tradition, Time and Opportunity," Springer Books, in: Textual Studies in Ancient and Medieval Geometry, chapter 0, pages 805-816, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4612-3690-0_28
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3690-0_28
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