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Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
- Record Id:
- 040-002360276
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002360268
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000926.0x000133
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023698323.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 14270, ff 21v-73r
- Title:
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al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب
Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
- Scope & Content:
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Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860).
The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables:
- Geometric diagram (f. 22v);
- Geometric diagram (f. 24r);
- Geometric diagram (f. 24v);
- Geometric diagram of the zodiac (f. 26r);
- Geometric diagram (f. 26v);
- Geometric diagram of the azimuth circles (f. 28r);
- Forty-five tables for the construction of an astrolabe (ff. 29v-51v);
- Rule (مسطرة) of astrolabe (f. 52v);
- Rete (شبكة) of astrolabe (f. 53v);
- Rete (شبكة) of astrolabe (f. 54v);
- Rete (شبكة) of astrolabe (f. 55v);
- Plate (صفيحة) of astrolabe (f. 57r);
- Plate (صفيحة) of astrolabe (f. 58r);
- Plate (صفيحة) of astrolabe (f. 58v);
- Plate (صفيحة) of astrolabe (f. 59v);
- Plate (صفيحة) of astrolabe (f. 60r);
- Shadow (ظلّ) of astrolabe (f. 61r);
- Shadow of the gnomon (ظلّ العود)(f. 62r);
- Alidade, ring, horse etc. of astrolabe (f. 62v);
- Rete of southern astrolabe (f. 64v);
- Plate (صفيحة) of southern astrolabe (f. 66r);
- Plate (صفيحة) of southern astrolabe (f. 67r);
- Plate (صفيحة) of southern astrolabe (f. 68v);
- Hypothetical, but impossible almucantar plate of astrolabe (f. 70v);
- Mater (أم) of melon-like astrolabe (الأسطرلاب البطيخي) (f. 72r);
- Rete (شبكة)of melon-like astrolabe (الأسطرلاب البطيخي) (f. 72v);
- Plate (صفيحة)of melon-like astrolabe (الأسطرلاب البطيخي) (f. 73r);
- Rete (شبكة) of astrolabe (f. 73v).
Begins (f. 21v, lines 2-6):
كتاب أحمد بن كثير الفرغاني المعروف بالكامل
في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب
قال أحمد إنّ المتقد[مين] من العلماء بحساب النجوم إنّما أدركوا
علم حركات الفلك وما يعرض فيه بالمواظبة على النظر والقياس وكان
أكثر ما استدلّوا به من آلات المقاييس التي تسمّى ذات الخلق ...
Ends (f. 70v, line 3-f. 71r, line 1):
... وذلك مما لا يحتاج إلى أكثر منه و
بأن أحدًا أراد أن يعمل الأسطرلاب لموضع من
الأرض مما يجوز عرضه 45 إلى 95 جزءًا
مما وصفناه لاسخراج ذلك من الجدول المفرد
للمدارات لهذا ما يستدل به على كل شيء (f. 71r)
Colophon (f. 71r, lines 2-10):
تم الكتاب والله أعلم بالصواب
بحمد الله وأونه ولطفه ومنه
بتأريخ الثامن وعشرين من شهر شوال سنة واحد (؟) وتسعين وستمائة
للهجرة الطاهرة النبوية على صاحبها الفصل الصلي
بالسلم
سمح (؟) الفقير إلى الله تعالى
عمر بن محمد بن طلحة
عفا له (؟) عنه تعالى
بالحمد لله وحد[ه] وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002360268
040-002360276 - Is part of:
- Or 14270 : Three technological treatises
Or 14270, ff 21v-73r : al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002360268[0003]/040-002360276
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Or 14270
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- ff. 21v-73r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000094.0x000095
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1292
- End Date:
- 1292
- Date Range:
- 28 Shawwāl 691
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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Edition and translation:
- Al-Farghānī On the Astrolabe, Richard Lorch ed. and trans. (Munich: Franz Steiner, 2005)
Study:
- DeYoung, Gregg, 'Farghānī: Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Thomas Hockey et al. eds., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 357
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr, astronomer; also known as Alfraganus, fl 813-861,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123418280,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/64358682 - Subjects:
- Astrolabes--Early works to 1800
- Related Material:
- British Library Or 5479
