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Subject Geometry--Early works to 1800

41. Or 12094

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12094
Title:
Risale-yi Mukantarat - رسالۀ مقنطرت
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on the mukantarat or circles attached to the quadrant and their use, in a mukaddime and 12 ebvap written by Mustafa İbn-i Ali el-Muvakkıt (died around 960 AH/1552-53 CE). There is a table giving the longitude and latitude of various locations (ff 117r-118v). T...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 119 ff

42. Or 12095

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12095
Title:
[Hendese-yi atik] - [هندسۀ عتیق]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on geometry by Abdürrahim İbn-i Abi Bekir Maraşi called Muhasip Çelebi (died 1149 AH/1736-37 CE). The title given in this record appears on the binding and is only tentative; the work might have only been called Hendese. The text contains an unfinished table of c...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 text, 145 ff

43. Or 13127

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13127
Title:
Kitāb Mānālāwus fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyahكتاب مانالاوس في الأشكال الكرية Menelaus of Alexandria مانالاوس
Scope & Content:
An early copy of Aḥmad ibn Abī Sa‘d al-Harawī's (أحمد بن أبي سعد الهروي; d. ca AD 1000) revised edition of the Arabic translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's (fl. ca AD 100) Greek treatise on spherical trigonometry known as Kitāb fī al-ashkāl al-kurrīyah (كتاب في الأشكال الكرية) or simply as Kit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
4 Rabī‘ II 548
Extent:
Codex; ff. ii+55+ii

44. Sloane MS 3034

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3034
Title:
Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:
A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
2 Feb 1646
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii