Gregg De Young. « The Taḥrīr of Euclid’s Elements by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī: redressing the balance ». Farhang, 15-16 (2003), pp. 117-43.
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De Young underlines the enormous impact Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr exercised in the Islamic world from the Maghrib to India between the 14th and the 19th centuries. He points to the almost complete lack of modern and contemporary studies of this work of the famous Iranian scholar and then offers a first analysis of its characteristics in three parts: generalities, alternative demonstrations, cases. The strong point of the paper is, in the view of the reviewer, the elucidation of the patterns in which Ṭūsī...
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De Young underlines the enormous impact Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr exercised in the Islamic world from the Maghrib to India between the 14th and the 19th centuries. He points to the almost complete lack of modern and contemporary studies of this work of the famous Iranian scholar and then offers a first analysis of its characteristics in three parts: generalities, alternative demonstrations, cases. The strong point of the paper is, in the view of the reviewer, the elucidation of the patterns in which Ṭūsī...
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