PERSON

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Basṭūlus al-Asṭurlābī

Name (arabic)

محمد بن عبد الله بسطولس الأسطرلابي

Name (translit)

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Basṭūlus al-Asṭurlābī

Alias

Basṭūlus
Nasṭūlus

Flourished

Number in MAMS

152

Biography URL

ismi_id

208972

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Fī tarkīb min al-tasṭīḥayn , في تركيب من التسطيحين

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. 69 (no. 152).

King, David, Lodi Nauta, and Arie Vanderjagt. 1999. “Bringing Astronomical Instruments Back To Earth: The Geographical Data On Medieval Astrolabes (To Ca. 1100)”. In Between Demonstration And Imagination: Essays In The History Of Science And Philosophy Presented To John D. North, 3-53. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Especially pp. 9, 10, 11, 22, 29, 35, 39.

King, David, Arlene Fullerton, and Géza Fehérvári. 1995. “Early Islamic Astronomical Instruments In Kuwaiti Collections”. In Kuwait – Arts And Architecture—A Collection Of Essays, 76-96. Kuwait: Oriental Press, UAE.
King, David. 1990. “The Earliest Islamic Astrolabes (Tenth To Eleventh Centuries)”. Preprint, 16-22.
King, David, and Paul Kunitzsch. 1983. “Nasṭūlus The Astrolabist Once Again”. Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Sciences 33: 342-343.

Reprinted in: "Islamic Astronomical Instruments," V. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.

Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, Viii-Xvii Vv [Mathematicians And Astronomers Of The Muslim Middle Ages And Their Works, Viii-Xvii Centuries]. 3 vol.. Moscow: Nauka.

Vol. 2, p. 126 (no. 96.1).

King, David. 1978. “A Note On The Astrolabist Nasṭūlus/Basṭūlus”. Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Sciences 28: 117-120.

Reprinted in: "Islamic Astronomical Instruments," IV. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 178-79.

Maddison, Francis, and Alain Brieux. 1974. “Basṭūlus Or Nasṭūlus? A Note On The Name Of An Early Islamic Astrolabist”. Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Sciences 24: 157-160.
al-Nadīm, Ibn. 1970. The Fihrist Of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey Of Muslim Culture. Ed. Bayard Dodge. 2 vol.. New York: Columbia University Press.

Vol. 2, p. 671.