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Ḥarakat al-aflāk
| Title (arabic) |
حركة الأفلاك
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| Title (translit) |
Ḥarakat al-aflāk
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| Alias |
Kitāb ḥarakaẗ al-aflāk
Kitāb al-hayʾa
Kitāb al-hayʾah
Kitāb ḥarakat al-falak al-ūlá
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| Author |
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Subject |
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| Notes |
An account of the Palmyra-Raqqa scientific expedition in Syria to determine the size of the Earth. The exact same passage is contained in another more extensive anonymous treatise entitled Hayʾat al-aflāk that has been attributed to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā (d. ca. 912), which see. |
| ismi_id |
78592
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Manuscript Witnesses
2 witnesses:Literature References
Ragep, F. Jamil. 1993. Nasīr Al‐Dīn Al‐Ṭūsī's Memoir On Astronomy (Al‐Tadhkira Fī ʿIlm Al‐Hayʾa). 2 vol.. New York: Springer‐Verlag.
2:502-10. Ragep provides the passage on the expedition (both the Arabic edition and an Eng. translation) based on Damascus Asad Ẓāhiriyya 4489.
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. 35-36 (no. 74), A3.
Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol.. Leipzig: Vogel.
P. 271.
Saliba, George. 1994. “Early Arabic Critique Of Ptolemaic Cosmology: A Ninth-Century Text On The Motion Of The Celestial Spheres”. Journal For The History Of Astronomy 25: 115-41.
P. 119. Saliba attributes this early hayʾa work to
Qusṭā.