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TEXT

Fī ḥarakat al-qamar

Title (arabic)

في حركة القمر
Title (translit)

Fī ḥarakat al-qamar
Alias

Maqālaẗ fī ḥarakaẗ al-qamar
Author

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: General
Text type

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

On the motion of the Moon.
ismi_id

90424

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
Fī ḥarakat al-qamar_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Fatih_3439
Fī ḥarakat al-qamar_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Selden_A32
Fī ḥarakat al-qamar_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 1030

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. 136 (no. 328), A2.

Gillispie, Charles, and Abdelhamid Sabra. 1972. “Ibn Al-Haytham”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 6:189-210. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

P. 208, III 82.