TEXT

Maqālah fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqah bi-al-quṭūʿ

Title (arabic)

مقالة في المرايا المحرقة بالقطوع

Title (translit)

Maqālah fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqah bi-al-quṭūʿ

Alias

Maqālaẗ fī al-marāyā al-muḥriqaẗ bi-al-quṭūʿ

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

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

Notes

On paraboloidal burning mirrors. Ibn al-Haytham mentions an earlier treatise of his on how to construct all conic sections by mechanical means.

ismi_id

58236

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