Gerard of Cremona

Japanese: Gerard of Cremona(英語表記)GerardofCremona
Gerard of Cremona

…The original title was Mathematikē syntaxis, but the adjective megistē, given by later generations as a title of respect, remained, and when it entered the Islamic world it was translated as almajistī (the first translation was said to be in the late 8th century, and later by Ibn Yusuf, Ishaq bin Hunayn, and Thabit bin Qurra). When it was introduced to the Latin world in the 12th century (the most famous was by Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87) in 1175), the title was still the Latin Almagestum. The system, which uses devices such as epicycles, eccentrics, and equants, is an extremely sophisticated mathematical model for describing celestial phenomena. …

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…もともとの標題は《数学的集大成Mathēmatikē syntaxis》とされていたが,後代の人々が尊称の意味で付した〈最大のmegistē〉という形容表現がそのまま残り,イスラム世界へ入って冠詞alを付された標題《almajistī》で翻訳された(8世紀末が最初といわれ,のちイブン・ユースフ,イスハーク・ブン・フナイン,サービト・ブン・クッラらのものが現れた)。12世紀にラテン世界に紹介(1175年のクレモナのジェラルドGerard of Cremona(1114ころ‐87)によるものが著名)されたときも,標題はラテン語の《Almagestum》であった。周転円,離心円,擬心(エカントequant)などのしかけを使った体系は,天体現象を記述する数学的モデルとしてはきわめて精緻(せいち)である。…

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