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al-Kāmil fī ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb

Title (arabic)

الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب

Title (translit)

al-Kāmil fī ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb

Alias

al-Kitāb al-kāmil lī-al-Farghānī
Kitāb ʿamal al-asṭurlāb
al-Kāmil fī al-asṭurlāb
Kitāb al-ʿamal bī-al-asṭurlāb
al-Kāmil fī ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-janūbī wa-ʿilalihā bi-al-handasah wa-al-ḥisab
Fī ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb bi-al-handasah lil-Farghānī
Kitāb fī ṣinʿat al-asṭurlāb wa-al-burhān ʿalayhi
Kitāb Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī fī ṣinʿat al-asṭurlāb

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

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

Notes

A treatise, in 7 chapters, on the construction of the astrolabe: 1) mathematical preliminaries (including stereographical projection); 2) the projection of circles on the surface of the astrolabe; 3) trigonometric techniques for the computations of the tables in ch. 4; 4) 5 Tables; 5) the northern astrolabe; 6) the southern astrolabe; 7) the impossibility of drawing other astrolabes.

ismi_id

309749

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P. 33 (no. 67), A2, A3.

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Pp. 150-51.

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Research.

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Research.

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Pp. 203-9.

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Research.

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German translation of the foreword.

Campani, Romeo. 1910. Alfragano (Al‐Fargānī). Il "Libro dell’aggregazione Delle Stelle" (Dante, Convivio, II, VI-134), Secondo Il Codice Mediceo-Laurenziano, Pl. 29, Cod. 9 Contemporaneo à Dante. Città di Castello: S. Lapi.

Pp. 87-90. Russian translation of Chapter 1 by Sergeyeva.

Campani, Romeo. 1910. Alfragano (Al‐Fargānī). Il "Libro dell’aggregazione Delle Stelle" (Dante, Convivio, II, VI-134), Secondo Il Codice Mediceo-Laurenziano, Pl. 29, Cod. 9 Contemporaneo à Dante. Città di Castello: S. Lapi.