The Meaning of «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι» in the Sectio canonis

By Fabio Acerbi

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

A new interpretation is proposed of the crucial expression «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι » (‘in one name’) as applied to ratios of the musical concords in the preface of the Sectio canonis ascribed to Euclid. A link is…

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A new interpretation is proposed of the crucial expression «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι » (‘in one name’) as applied to ratios of the musical concords in the preface of the Sectio canonis ascribed to Euclid. A link is also established with the name of one of the irrational lines introduced by Euclid in Elements 10. Past interpretations of the expression are discussed and shown to be inadequate.

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Original publication: Acerbi, Fabio. The Meaning of «ἑνὶ ὀνόματι» in the Sectio canonis. Interpretatio Series A. 2016. URI: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/interpretatioa/article/view/26323. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Interpretatio under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.

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