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TEXT

[Letter to al-Bīrūnī on the Number of Kinds of Lunar Eclipses]

Title (translit)

[Letter to al-Bīrūnī on the Number of Kinds of Lunar Eclipses]
Alias

[Letter to al-Bīrūnī on the Number of Kinds of Lunar Eclipses]
Author

Abū Sahl ʿĪsá ibn Yaḥyá al-Jurjānī al-Masīḥī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: General
ismi_id

141073

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. 108 (no. 285), A4.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances Between Cities; A Translation from the Arabic of Kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt Al-amākin Li-taṣḥīḥ masāfāt Al-masākin. Trans. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.

P. 133.