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Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī (Jābir ibn Aflaḥ)

Title (arabic)

اصلاح المجسطي

Title (translit)

Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī (Jābir ibn Aflaḥ)

Alias

Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī li-Jābir ibn Aflaḥ
Kitāb al-hayʾah wa-huwa talkhīṣ kitāb al-Majisṭī
اصلاح المجسطي لجابر بن افلح

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

Abridgement (epitome)

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135734

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Samsó, Julio. 2001. “Ibn Al-Haytham and Jābir B. Aflaḥ’s Criticism of Ptolemy’s Determination of the Parameters of Mercury”. Suhayl International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilization, 199-225.
King, David, George Saliba, and Noel Swerdlow. 1987. “Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ’s Interesting Method for Finding the Eccentricities and Direction of the Apsidal Line of a Superior Planet”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 501-12. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
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Vol. 1, pp. 172-79.

Braunmühl, Anton. 1900. Vorlesungen über Geschichte Der Trigonometrie. Leipzig.

Pp. 81-83.

Ibn Aflaḥ, Jābir. 1534. Geberi Filii Affla Hispalensis De Astronomie Libri IX. Ed. P. Apianus. Norimberqae.