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Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah
| Title (arabic) |
كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة
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| Title (translit) |
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah
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| Alias |
Kawākib al-thābitah
Kitāb fī ʿilm al-nujūm
Ṣuwar al-kawākib
الصور السمائية
صور الكواكب
كتاب الكواكب
كتاب الكواكب الثابتة
كتاب كواكب الثابتة
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| Author |
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| Created |
335H/946J
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Subject |
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| Text type |
First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
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| Notes |
Description of the 48 Ptolemaic constellations, based on the Arabic translations of Ptolemy’s Almagest, with detailed critique for each of the 1,025 stars in Ptolemy’s star catalogue, based on Ṣūfī’s own observations. |
| ismi_id |
172144
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Manuscript Witnesses
48 witnesses:Literature References
Kunitzsch, Paul. 1986. “The Astronomer Abū ʾL‐Ḥusayn Al‐Ṣūfī And His Book On The Constellations”. In Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Arabisch–Islamischen Wissenschaften, 3:56-81. Frankfurt: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften.
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, and Boris Rozenfeld. 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. 86 (no. 212), A1.