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TEXT

al-Rukhāmah al-ufuqiyyah

Title (arabic)

الرخامة الأفقيّة
Title (translit)

al-Rukhāmah al-ufuqiyyah
Alias

Maqālaẗ fī al-ruḫāmaẗ al-ufuqiyyaẗ
Author

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Text type

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

On the horizontal sundial.
ismi_id

131434

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
al-Rukhāmah al-ufuqiyyah_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Ms. or. oct._2970
al-Rukhāmah al-ufuqiyyah_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Atıf Efendi_1714
al-Rukhāmah al-ufuqiyyah_Tehran_unknown repository is in Tehran_Tungabuni_110

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. 136 (no. 328), A11.

Gillispie, Charles, and Abdelhamid Sabra. 1972. “Ibn Al-Haytham”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 6:189-210. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

P. 205, III 11.