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Euclid's Data : The Importance of Being Given

by Christian Marinus Taisbak

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 8772898151
ISBN-13 9788772898155
Publisher Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint Museum Tusculanum Press
Country of Manufacture DK
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 11th, 2003
Print length 271 Pages
Weight 672 grams
Dimensions 24.20 x 16.20 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification: Literary essays Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Euclidean geometry
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This is a scholarly contribution to an area -- the history of Greek geometrical analysis -- that is still insufficiently understood. At the time of Zeuthen, and even up to the middle of the last century, it was fashionable to treat the Data algebraically. Taisbak has abandoned this approach completely, arguing that it does nothing to help us to understand either the development of the work or the reasons for its having been copied, studied, and quoted for more than two millennia. We must bear a queer sort of frustration that affects us everywhere in the Data: we get very little information, hardly any ''knowledge'' of the givens. And why not? Probably because ''knowing'' geometrical objects was problematic in those days when the concept of ''given'' came into being, and the consequences of incommensurability was just being understood. Next to nothing is known of these items, and very little that is worth knowing: length, size, distance -- any of the attributes that can be spoken of by means of numbers. Although there have been two recent translations of the Data, this one is unique in providing, as well, an extensive commentary, which provides the insights gained from three decades of studying the work. The book is meant as a coherent and understandable account of what could have been going on in Euclid''s mind, and some reasons for believing that that is what actually was going on in his mind.

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