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TEXT

Maqālah fī anna mā yurá min al-samāʾ huwa akthar min niṣfihā

Title (arabic)

مقالة في أنّ ما يرى من السماء هو اكثر من نصفها
Title (translit)

Maqālah fī anna mā yurá min al-samāʾ huwa akthar min niṣfihā
Alias

Maqālaẗ fī anna mā yurỳ min al-samāʾ huwa akṯar min niṣfihā
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

142710

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
Maqālah fī anna mā yurá min al-samāʾ huwa akthar min niṣfihā_Alexandria_Alexandria Municipal Library_UNKNOWN_2099
Maqālah fī anna mā yurá min al-samāʾ huwa akthar min niṣfihā_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Marsh_720
Maqālah fī anna mā yurá min al-samāʾ huwa akthar min niṣfihā_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Thurston_3

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. 137 (no. 328), A23.

Heinen, Anton. 1979. “On Some Hitherto Unknown Manuscripts Of Works By Ibn Al-Haytham”. The Second International Symposium For The History Of Arabic Science: University Of Aleppo 5 - 12 April 1979, 59.