表題番号：2011B-298
日付：2012/04/13
研究課題メネラオスの球の幾何学
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 国際学術院 | 講師（任期付） | Ｓｉｄｏｌｉ Ｎａｔｈａｎ ｃ |
- 研究成果概要
- In the period 2011/7/1-2012/3/31, we have made progress on a number of key issues of the project. (1) We have worked on the Arabic edition and English translation of the source text. (2) We have examined one of the key manuscripts (Leiden Or. 399) in person and taken photographs. (3) We have decided on the tools for constructing the website and built an example site (http://www.aoni.waseda.jp/sidoli/theodosius_spherics_constructions.html).
We have now discovered that the two manuscripts Ahmet III 3464 (A) and Leiden Or. 399 (L) contain a significantly different version of the text than the Kraus manuscript (K), which is a copy of a related manuscript tradition. Hence, we are editing two different versions. The LA text will appear in the final monograph, accompanied with English translation and commentaries. Since we are also editing the K manuscript, we may publish this separately at a later date, as a critical Arabic edition, with no translation. We have edited, and translated more than three quarters of the text and we have written much of the introductory material.
Sidoli was in Leiden 2012/3/30-2012/4/02 and visited the Leiden University Library to inspect the L manuscript. Photos were taken of many of the pages that contain material that is difficult to read in the microfilms. This will help in editing and proofreading.
Along with a research assistant, Sidoli has compared the advantages of Cinderella(R) and the Geometry Applet(R) for producing Java-enabled diagrams of spherical geometry. By experimenting with a related text (Theodosius’Spherics, for which there is an unpublished English translation), we were able to determine that Geometry Applet(R) is suitable for our needs. We have made an example website to test out the features we will implement in the full site:
http://www.aoni.waseda.jp/sidoli/theodosius_spherics_constructions.html