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IO Islamic 461, ff 198v-207r
- Record Id:
- 040-002899880
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002878694
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024503420.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025776458.0x000007
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 461, ff 198v-207r
- Title:
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Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn كتاب في القرسطون
Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī ثابت بن قرّة الحراني
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on the static and mechanic theories underpinning the use of a kind of balance by Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī (أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرّة الحرّاني; d. 901). The treatise begins with postulates taken from the Kitāb fī al-thiqal wa-al-khiffah wa-qiyās al-ajrām ba‘ḍihā ilá ba‘ḍ (كتاب في الثقل والخفة وقياس الأجرام بعضها إلى بعض; see IO Islamic 923, ff 98v-101r), attributed to Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης; أقليدس; fl. 300 BC).
The text contains seven diagrams, which are collected on a fold out (f. 208r) at the end of the text.
The mediaeval Latin version of this treatise, known as Liber karastonis, is probably the work of Gerard of Cremona (d. 1187; see edition and translation in Clagett and Moody, The Medieval Science of Weights [Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1952], pp. 79-117).
Contents:
Begins (f. 198v, lines 2-5):
كل خط نقسم قسمين مختلفين وثبت منه النقطة القائمة وتحرك بسره حركة
لا يعود بها إلى موضعه فإنّه يحدث قطاعين متشاهبين من دائرتين
نصف قطر إحديهما القسم الأطول من قسمي الخط ونصف قطر الأخرى
القسم الآخر ...
Ends (f. 207r, lines 7-10):
... وبين قطعة ج د أيضًا
من العمود يقاوم قطعة ا ج منه لأنّهما متساويتا الطول والغلظ والجوهر و
بالجملة متساويتا الوزن فجميع قسمة ج ب من العمود حينئذ تقاوم قسم ا ج
مع ثقل ج فيصير وزن عمود ا ب على موازاة الأفق وذلك ما أردنا أن نبين
Colophon (f. 207r, line 11):
هذا آخر ما أملأه أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرة في تبيين أمر القرسطون
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002878694
040-002899880 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 461 : Seven treatises on mathematics, astronomy and statics
IO Islamic 461, ff 198v-207r : Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn كتاب في القرسطونThābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī ثابت بن… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002878694[0007]/040-002899880
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 461
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 198v-207r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025776458.0x000007
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1784
- End Date:
- 1784
- Date Range:
- 1198
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Edition (based on the text of IO Islamic 461), translation and study:
- Jaouiche, Khalil, Le livre du Qarasṭūn de Ṯābit ibn Qurra: étude sur l'origine de la notion de travail et du calcul du moment statique d'une barre homogène (Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1976)
Study and German translation:
- Wiedemann, Eilhard, 'Die Schrift über den Qarasṭūn', in Bibliotheca Mathematica, 12 (1911-12), pp. 21-39
Edition, translation and study of Latin version:
- Clagett, Marshall and Ernest A. Moody, The Medieval Science of Weights (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1952), pp. 79-117
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)