DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.
ISBN10: 9027708339, ISBN13: 9789027708335, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - skilled in geometry, ingenious devices (!lival), music and astronomy. According to Ibn al-Nad!m and Ibn Khallikän their weakest subject was astronamy, but this seems to conflict with the opinions of Ibn Yunus and al-BIrun!, hoth good judges, who spoke highly of the accuracy of the Banu Musa's astronomical observations. Mul)ammad, who was the most influential of the brothers, specialised in gcomctry and astronomy, and excellcd Al)mad in all the sciences except in the construction of ingenious devices. AI-l:Iasan was a brilliant geometrician with aretenlive memoryand great powers of deduction. A rival onee tried to discredit him in front of al-Ma'mun hy saying that al l:Iasan had read only six of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. AI-l:Iasan replied by saying that it was unnecessary for him to read the remainder because he could arrive at the answers to any of Euclid's problem s by deduction. AI-Ma'mun acknowledged al-l:Iasan 's skill, but did not excuse him, saying: 'laziness has prevented you from 2 reading the whole ofit-it is to geometry as the Ictters a, b, t, 111 are to speech and writing. ' (H. 264). AI-l:Iasan is rarely mentioned by name elsewhere in the sources and may have preferred to devote his time to scholarship, whereas his brothers were involved in a variety of undertaki ...
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Book of Ingenious Devices / Kitáb al-Ḥiyal : Kitáb al-Hiyal. By The Banú (sons of) Músà bin Shákir. ISBN 9027708339 9789027708335 [GB]
ISBN10: 9027708339, ISBN13: 9789027708335, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. 1.6 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]
ISBN10: 9027708339, ISBN13: 9789027708335, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - skilled in geometry, ingenious devices (!lival), music and astronomy. According to Ibn al-Nad!m and Ibn Khallikän their weakest subject was astronamy, but this seems to conflict with the opinions of Ibn Yunus and al-BIrun!, hoth good judges, who spoke highly of the accuracy of the Banu Musa's astronomical observations. Mul)ammad, who was the most influential of the brothers, specialised in gcomctry and astronomy, and excellcd Al)mad in all the sciences except in the construction of ingenious devices. AI-l:Iasan was a brilliant geometrician with aretenlive memoryand great powers of deduction. A rival onee tried to discredit him in front of al-Ma'mun hy saying that al l:Iasan had read only six of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. AI-l:Iasan replied by saying that it was unnecessary for him to read the remainder because he could arrive at the answers to any of Euclid's problem s by deduction. AI-Ma'mun acknowledged al-l:Iasan 's skill, but did not excuse him, saying: 'laziness has prevented you from 2 reading the whole ofit-it is to geometry as the Ictters a, b, t, 111 are to speech and writing. ' (H. 264). AI-l:Iasan is rarely mentioned by name elsewhere in the sources and may have preferred to devote his time to scholarship, whereas his brothers were involved in a variety of undertaki ...
ISBN10: 9027708339, ISBN13: 9789027708335, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 1.6 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]
ISBN10: 9027708339, ISBN13: 9789027708335, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Translator(s): Hill, D. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571. . 1978. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1978]
ISBN10: 9027708339, ISBN13: 9789027708335, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Translator(s): Hill, D. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571. . 1978. Hardback. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1978]
DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
