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

286H/900J

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: 342-43.

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).

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

Pp. 178-79.

King, David. 1978. “A Note on the Astrolabist Nasṭūlus Basṭūlus”. Archives Internationales d’histoire Des Sciences 28: 117-20.

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

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: 157-60.
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.