TEXT

Nihāyah al‐suʾl fī taṣḥīḥ al‐uṣūl (Ibn al-Shāṭir)

Title (arabic)

نهاية السؤل في تصحيح الأصول

Title (translit)

Nihāyah al‐suʾl fī taṣḥīḥ al‐uṣūl (Ibn al-Shāṭir)

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

In his treatise entitled Nihāyaẗ al‐suʾl fī taṣḥīḥ al‐uṣūlis ("The culmination of inquiry into correcting the hypotheses"), Ibn al-Shāṭir presents a summary account of his new planetary models. See S. Nikfahm-Khubravan and F.J. Ragep (reference below) for a critical edition and translation of chapter 21 of part 1 of this work that deals with Mercury.

ismi_id

105844

Literature References

Gillispie, Charles, and David King. 1975. “Ibn Al-Shāṭir”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, 12:357-364. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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. 254 (no. 750), A4.

Nikfahm-Khubravan, Sajjad, and F. Jamil Ragep. 2019. “The Mercury Models Of Ibn Al-Šāṭir And Copernicus”. Arabic Sciences And Philosophy 29: 1-59.