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IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r
- Record Id:
- 040-002713951
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002713928
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022555223.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023602345.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r
- Title:
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Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrikah تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة
Autolycus أوطولوقس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the De sphaera quae movertur (Περὶ κινουμένης σφαίρας;كتاب الكرة المتحركة) by the astronomer, mathematician and geographer Autolycus of Pitane (Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; أوطولوقس; fl. 300 BC), translation from the Greek revised by Thābit ibn Qurrah (ثابت بن قرة; d. 901).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 10r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 17 Jumādá I without mention of the year (f. 9v), probably 1198 (8 April 1784).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-4):
تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركة لأوطولوقس أصلحه ثابت وهو مقالة
واحدة وإثنا عشر شكلًا صدر النقطة التي تتحرك حركة معتدلة
هي التي تسير في أزمان متساوية مقادير متساوية مشابهة
Ends (f. 9v, lines 2-4):
فهو عمود على سطح دائرة ب ه ء وكان السطح ما يلا هذا خلف
فز مركز الكرة لا غير فإذن كلّ واحدة من دائرتي أ ب ح ء
ب ه ء عظيمة وذلك ما أردناه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002713928
040-002713951 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 923 : Arabic (and one Persian) versions of six Greek treatises on mathematics edited by Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn…
IO Islamic 923, ff 1v-10r : Taḥrīr kitāb al-kurrah al-mutaḥarrikah تحرير كتاب الكرة المتحركةAutolycus أوطولوقس - Hierarchy:
- 032-002713928[0001]/040-002713951
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 923
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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ff. 1v-10r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100022555137.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- 17 Jumādá I 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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Edition:
- Autolycus, Kitāb al-kurah al-mutaḥarrikah, in Majmūʿ al-rasāʼil ḥarrarahā Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (Ḥaydarābād al-Dakkan: Dāʼirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmānīyah, 1358-1359 [1939-1940])
Edition of original Greek text:
- Autolyci de sphaera quae movetur liber. De ortibus et occasibus libri duo una cum scholiis antiquis e libris manu scriptis edidit, Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., (Liepzig: Teubner, 1885)
Edition and translation of original Greek text:
- The Books of Autolykos. On a Moving Sphere, and On Risings and Settings, Frans Bruin and Alexander Vondjidis, eds. and trans., (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1971)
Study:
- Steinschneider, Moritz, 'Die 'mittleren' Bücher der Araber und ihre Bearbeiter', Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, Historisch-literärische Abteilung 10 (1865) pp. 456-98
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)