The earliest Arabic magic squares

• Autores: Cristian Tolsa
• Localización: Suhayl: journal for the history or the exact and natural sciences in Islamic Civilisation, ISSN 1576-9372, Nº. 18 (International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation), 2020-2021, págs. 7-24
• Idioma: inglés
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  • My aim here is to shed light on the origins of magic squares in the Islamic world. This question has often been tentatively addressed, but previous studies considered only part of the evidence. The earliest Arabic texts discussing squares (al-Ṭabarī, Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, Brethren of Purity) are examined here together for the first time, as well as the Indian medical sources.