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Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (Khwārizmī)

Title (arabic)

كتاب العمل بالأصطرلاب
Title (translit)

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (Khwārizmī)
Alias

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (Ḫwārizmī)
Kitāb ʿamal al-asṭurlāb
Author

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

This is an untitled work on the use of the astrolabe.
ismi_id

47445

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (Khwārizmī)_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Landberg_56

Literature References

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2004. “Al-Khwārizmī and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, the Earliest Extant Corpus of Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable Instruments”. SCIAMVS 5: 101-98.

P. 105, text 2.

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. 23 (no. 41), A2.