Risālaẗ fī ḥall iškāl al-muʿaddil al-qamar lil-masīr (al-Qūshjī)

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Risālah fī ḥall ishkāl al-muʿaddil al-qamar lil-masīr (al-Qūshjī)

Title (arabic)	رسالة في حلّ إشكال المعدّل القمر للمسير
Title (translit)	Risālah fī ḥall ishkāl al-muʿaddil al-qamir lil-masīr (al-Qūshjī)
Alias	رسالة في حلّ إشكال المعدّل المسير لعطارد Fāʾidaẗ fī iškāl ʿUṭārid Risāla fī ḥall iškāl al-qamar lil-masīr Risālaẗ fī ḥall iškāl al-muʿaddil al-masīr li-ʿUṭārid
Author	Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type	First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes	An astronomical treatise dealing with the solution of the equant problem of Mercury.
ismi_id	522820

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:

Risālah fī ḥall ishkāl al-muʿaddil al-qamar lil-masīr (al-Qūshjī)_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_3483

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. 287 (no. 845), A9.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Pp. 35-36 (no. 11), 6.

Saliba, George. 1993. “Al-Qūshjī’s Reform of the Ptolemaic Model for Mercury”. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 3 (2): 161-203.

Saliba provides an Arabic edition, English translation, and commentary of this treatise. Saliba states the text (which is not dated) was most likely written between 1420 and 1449 (p. 166).