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IO Islamic 1249, ff 118v-231v
- Record Id:
- 040-002560249
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002560174
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022539525.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023285040.0x000006
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1249, ff 118v-231v
- Title:
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كتاب الكرة والأسطوانة
Kitāb al-kurrah wa-al-isṭūwānah
Archimedes أرشميدس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the De sphaera et cylindro (Περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου; كتاب الكرة والأسطوانة) by the mathematician Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC), revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901) and presented here in the edition of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين الطوسي; d. 1274) along with a commentary based largely on that by Eutocius of Ascalon (Ἐυτόκιος ὁ Ἀσκαλωνίτης; أوطيوقيوس العسقلاني; d. ca 540), the Commentarii in libros de sphaera et cylindro. For a history of the edition, see the editor's preface (ff. 118v, line 2-119v, line 6). The text ends with an appendix by the mathematician and astronomer Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (أبو سهل القوهي; fl. second half of the 10th century).
The diagrams are collected on fold outs on ff. 143r, 164r, 178r and 205r.
Begins (editor's introduction f. 118v, lines 2-4; and text proper f. 119v, lines 6-7):
أقول بعد تحميد الله وتمجيده والصلوة على محمد وآله المصطفين من عبيده
إني كنت في طلب الوقوف على بعض المسائل المذكور في كتاب
الكرة الأسطوانة لأرشميدس زمانًا طويلًا ...
... المقالة الأولى صدر الكتاب
افتتح أرشميدس كتابه بأن قال مخاطبًا لواحد من أهل زمانه اسمه دسبيثاوس
Ends (f. 231v, lines 8-10):
... وبمثل ذلك نبين في كل قطعتين يكونان أصغر
أو أعظم من النصف ويكون أحدهما أقرب إلى النصف من الأخرى وذلك
ما أردناه فهذا ما أورده أو (!) سهل القوهي ...
Colophon (f. 231v, lines 10-11):
... تمت المقالة الثانية وتم
بتمامها كتاب الكرة والأسطوانة لأرشميدس ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002560174
040-002560249 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 1249 : Arabic versions of seven Greek treatises on mathematics edited byṬūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad…
IO Islamic 1249, ff 118v-231v : كتاب الكرة والأسطوانةKitāb al-kurrah wa-al-isṭūwānahArchimedes أرشميدس - Hierarchy:
- 032-002560174[0006]/040-002560249
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1249
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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ff. 118v-231v
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022536511.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- Jumādá I 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Study:
- Steinschneider, Moritz, 'Die 'mittleren' Bücher der Araber und ihre Bearbeiter', Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, Historisch-literärische Abteilung 10 (1865) pp. 456-98
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