TEXT

Kitāb fī istīʿāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣinʿat al-asṭurlāb

Title (arabic)

كتاب في إستیعاب الوجوه الممکنة في صنعة الأسطرلاب

Title (translit)

Kitāb fī istīʿāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣinʿat al-asṭurlāb

Alias

Kitāb fī ṣinʿaẗ al-asṭurlāb
Kitāb al-ʿamal bi al-asṭurlāb
Maqāla fī ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb
"Astrolabes"
Kitāb Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī fī istīʿāb al-wujūh al-mumkinah fī ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb
Risālah fī al-asṭurlāb

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

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

Notes

A treatise on understanding all possible ways of constructing the astrolabe.

ismi_id

154768

Manuscript Witnesses

24 witnesses:

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