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TEXT

Fī istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid

Title (arabic)

في إستخراج خطّ نصف النهار بظل واحد
Title (translit)

Fī istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid
Alias

Fī istiḫrāj ḫaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid
Author

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

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: General
Text type

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

139617

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
Fī istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Ms. or. oct._2970
Fī istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Atıf Efendi_1714
Fī istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid_Tehran_Malik (Library of Husayn Āghā Malik)_UNKNOWN (Malik, Tehran)_3086

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), A15.

Kennedy, Edward. 1989. “Ibn Al-Haytham’s Determination of the Meridian from One Solar Altitude”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 5: 141-44.