PERSON

Abū al-Fatḥ Saʿīd ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī

Name (arabic)

أبو الفتح سعيد بن خفيف السمرقندي

Name (translit)

Abū al-Fatḥ Saʿīd ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī

Alias

Ibn Khafīf al-Samarqandī
Abū al-Fatḥ al-Samarqandī
Saʿīd al-Samarqandī

Born

286H/900J

Flourished

Died

390H/1000J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

189, 220

ismi_id

60106

Authored Works

3 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Takhṭīṭ al-sāʿāt , تخطيط الساعات

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Jadāwil al-ẓill al-mabsūṭah al-ithná ʿasharī maḥlūl daqīqah daqīqah ʿalá martabatayn , جداول الظل المبسوطة الإثنی عشري محلول دقیقة دقیقة علی مرتبتين

Astronomy: General

Risālah fī istikhrāj sāʿāt al-bast wa-sāʾir awqāt al-layl wa-al-nahār , رسالة في إستخراج ساعات البست وسائر أوقات الليل والنهار

References

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P. 80 (no. 189) (=p. 88 (no. 220).

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Suppl. 1, p. 400; vol. 2, p. 1025.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 43 (B58).

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. 147.

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

Pp. 216-17.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

P. 181.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

P. 199.