Ishaq ibn Hunayn

Ishaaq ibn Hunayn (* 830, † 910 ) was a Christian- Arabic translator and mathematician of the 9th and 10th century in Baghdad.

He was the son of the eminent translator from Greek into Arabic and physician Hunayn ibn Ishaaq, who worked in the House of Wisdom (Baghdad ). Ishaq ibn Hunayn supported him in his translations and is considered a second translator of the Elements of Euclid into Arabic by al - Hajjij in the 8th and early 9th century. The translation was reviewed by Thabit ibn Qurra and the mathematician improved, but he died already 901 Receive only the revised by Thabit ibn Qurra version. Two manuscripts of which are in the Bodleian Library in Oxford: No 279 from the year 1238 and No. 280 of 1260 / 61st They include the books 1-13 of the elements ( and not derived from Euclid Books 14, 15 in a translation of another author Qusta ibn Luqa ( d. 912) ). There is also a manuscript in Copenhagen.

From the output of the elements of Ishaq ibn Hunayn / Thabit ibn Qurra ibn Tibbon Moses made ​​or Jacob ben Machir (who died in 1306, also from the family ibn Tibbon ) in the 13th century in southern France a Hebrew translation of items.

The next edition of the Arabic elements derived from Nasir al- Din al - Tusi ( 1248 ), but it was based on the older translations, and was not an independent translation.