TEXT

Kitāb majhūlāt qisiy al-kurah

Title (arabic)

كتاب مجهولات قسي الكرة

Title (translit)

Kitāb majhūlāt qisiy al-kurah

Alias

Kitāb majhūlāt qisiy al-kuraẗ
Kitāb istikhrāj maqādīr al-qisiy al-wāqiʿa ʿalá ẓahr al-kurah

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

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

Notes

(From MAMS2): The first treatise in the history of mathematics specifically devoted to spherical trigonometry.

ismi_id

119699

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. 140 (no. 340), M2.

Villuendas, Maria. 1979. La Trigonometría Europea En El Siglo Xi : Estudio De La Obra De Ibn Muʿād: El Kitāb Mayhūlāt. Barcelona: Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras.
Sabra, Abdelhamid. 1977. “A Note On Codex Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Or. 152”. Journal For The History Of Arabic Science 1 (2): 276–283.

P. 281.

Samsó, Julio. 1980. “Notas Sobre La Trigonometria Esferica De Ibn Muʿad”. Awraq 3: 60-67.
Villuendas, Maria. 1980. “Traktat Ibn Mu'aza Po Sfericheskoy Trigonomertii”. Istoriko-Matematicheskiye Issledovaniya 25: 317-319.