Qotboldin Shirazi and Euclid's Elements

Abstract

The Book of Euclid’s Elements, named after its author and also called “The Book of Elements” in the mathematical publications, is one of the important books of the Islamic period. It was translated several times and those translations were also modified several times and many important and useful comments were added on it by some scholars. The present paper aims to analyze a united shape resulting from the integration of the forty eight fold shapes of the theorem of Euclid’s elements. This shape was drawn by Qotboldin Shirazi, one of the translators of the Euclid’s Elements from Arabic into Persian.