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TEXT

Fāʾida fī ashkāl ʿUṭārid (Qūshjī)

Title (arabic)

فائدة في أشكال عطارد
Title (translit)

Fāʿida fī ashkāl ʿUṭārid
Alias

رسالة في هيئة
Author

Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes

In this work Qūshjī criticizes and corrects opinions and issues related to the motions of Mercury mentioned in Ptolemy's Almagest.
ismi_id

1002391

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Fāʾida fī ashkāl ʿUṭārid (Qūshjī)_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_3483

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 287 (no. 845), A6.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Pp. 29-30 (no. 11), 1.