Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḫāzin al-Ḫurāsānī

PERSON

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khāzin al-Khurāsānī

Name (arabic)	أبو جعفر محمد بن الحسين الخازن الخراساني
Name (translit)	Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khāzin al-Khurāsānī
Alias	Khāzin Abū Jaʿfar al-Khāzin
Died	349H/961J
Born in	Khurāsān
Lived in	Rayy Khurāsān
Number in MAMS	194
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khazin_BEA.htm
ismi_id	60526

Authored Works

6 works:

Astronomy: General

Sharḥ al-Majisṭī , شرح المجسطي

Geometry: General

Tafsīr ṣadr al-maqālah al-ʿāshirah min kitāb Uqlīdis , تفسير صدر المقالة العاشرة من كتاب أقليدس

Mathematics: General

Al-Burhān ʿalá al-shakl al-sābiʿ min kitāb Banī Mūsá , البرهان على الشكل السابع من كتاب بني موسى

Iṣlāḥ kitāb al-makhrūṭāt , إصلاح كتاب المخروطات

Risālah fī al-burhān ʿalá annahu lā yumkinu an yakūna ḍilʿā ʿadadayn murabbaʿayn yakūnu majmūʿuhumā murabbaʿan fardayn bal yakūnān zawjayn aw yakūnu aḥaduhumā zawjan wa-al-ākhar fardan , رسالة في البرهان على أنّه لا يمكن ان يكون ضلعا عددين مربّعين يكون مجموعهما مربّعاً فردين بل يكونان زوجين أو يكون أحدهما زوجاً والآخر فرداً

[Book on the Map of a Sphere that is Projected on a Plane]

References

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Pp. 81-82 (no. 194).

Hogendijk, Jan. 1997. “Abū Jaʿfar Al-Khāzin”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 3-4. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

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Vol. 1, p. 246; suppl. 1, pp. 383, 387.

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. 39.

Lorch, Richard. 1986. “Abū Jaʿfar al‐Khāzin on Isoperimetry and the Archimedean Tradition”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 3: 150-229.

Pingree, David. 1985. “Abū Jaʿfar Al-Khāzen”. In Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1:326-27.

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.

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Samsó, Julio. 1977. “A Homocentric Solar Model by Abū Jaʿfar al‐Khāzin”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 1: 268-75.

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