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IO Islamic 923, ff 52v-69r
- Record Id:
- 040-002713979
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002713928
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022555258.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023602345.0x000004
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 923, ff 52v-69r
- Title:
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Fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-bu‘dayhimma في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما
Aristarchus أرسطرخس
- Scope & Content:
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Arabic version of the De magnitudinibus et distantiis solis et lunae (περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης; في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما) by Aristarchus of Samos (أرسطرخس, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, ca 310-ca 230 BC).
The diagrams are collected on a fold out (f. 69r) following the text. At the end of the text is a collation note in Persian dated 13 Jumādá I without mention of the year (f. 68r), probably 1198 (4 April 1784).
Contents:
Begins (f. 52v, lines 2-4):
كتاب أرسطرخس في جرمي النيرين وبعديهما سبعة عشر شكلًا
صدر الكتاب نضع أن القمر يقبل الضوء من الشمس وأن قدر الأرض
عند فلك البروج قدر المركز والنقطة ...
Ends (f. 68v, lines 5-9):
... فبالمساواة نسبة ح ب إلى لط
أصغر من 65 إلى 116 عنى من نسبة 15 إلى 4 وبالتفصيل نسبة
ح ط إلى ط ب أصغر من نسبة 12 إلى
14 عنى من نسبة 3 إلى واحد
وذلك ما أردناه
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
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- 032-002713928
040-002713979 - 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 52v-69r : Fī jirmay al-nayyirayn wa-bu‘dayhimma في جرمي النيرين وبعديهماAristarchus أرسطرخس - Hierarchy:
- 032-002713928[0004]/040-002713979
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 923
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ff. 52v-69r
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- 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:
- 13 Jumādá I 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Edition:
- Aristarchus of Samos, Kitāb fī jiramay al-nayyirayn, 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, translation and study of original Greek text:
- Heath, Thomas, Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus: A History of Greek Astonomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Size and Distance of the Sun and Moon (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1913)
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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- Archives and Manuscripts
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