TEXT
Nahj al-bulūgh fī zīj Ulugh [T]
| Title (arabic) |
نهج البلوغ في زيج ألغ
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| Title (translit) |
Nahj al-bulūgh fī zīj Ulugh
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| Alias |
Nahj al-bulūġ fī zīj Uluġ
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| Author |
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| Created |
1157H/1745J
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| Language |
Turkish (Ottoman pre-1839)
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| Subject |
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| Text type |
Translation
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| Translation of |
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| Commentary on |
Zīj-i Ulugh Beg
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| Dedicated to |
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| Notes |
ʿAbbās Wasīm Effendi's Turkish commentary on Ulugh Beg's Zīj (which was originally written in Persian) includes: examples from his own calculations for the longitude and latitude of Istanbul; findings from ancient Turkish, Hebrew, and Roman calendars not in the original; and an explanation of Ulugh Beg's method for finding the sine of 1°. |
| ismi_id |
44055
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Manuscript Witnesses
1 witnesses:Literature References
Aydüz, Salim. 2007. “ʿAbbās Wasīm Efendi”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:1-2. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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. 445-46 (no. 297), 2