This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the Tanbīhāt al-munajjimīn (تنبيهات المنجمين), a Persian work on astrology which the author, Muẓaffar bin Qāsim Junābādī, began in 1031 AH (1622 CE) and dedicated to ᶜabbās I. It is divided into a mukaddime, six ebvap and a hatime. Accordi...
This volume contains two astronomical treatises on aspects of the use of the quadrant. They were originally written in Arabic by Süleyman Murat Gedüsi (died 1853? CE), and were translated by him into Ottoman Turkish. (I) ff 1v-10r: Tercüme-yi Gedüsi li'l-Mukatarat, a text on the mukantarat, ci...
[Tuhfetü’z-zaman ve haridetü’l-evan] - [تحفة الزمان وخريدة الاوان]
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This volume contains a treatise on cosmography and on determining prayer times authored in 932 AH/1526 CE by the Ottoman astronomer, astrologer, and timekeeper, Mustafa ibn-i Ali el-Muvakkit (died 979/1571). Mustafa ibn-i Ali was born in Istanbul in the early tenth century AH/sixteenth century ...
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...