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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.

ismi_id

105844

Literature References

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S. Nikfahm-Khubravan and F.J. Ragep provide a critical edition and English translation of chapter 21 of part 1 of this work that deals with Mercury.

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.

Ṭāshkubrīzade, Aḥmad, and Ahmed Subhi Furat. 1985. “Al‐Shaqāʾiq al‐nuʿmāniyya Fī ʿulamāʾ al‐dawlat al‐ʿuthmāniyya”. Istānbūl: Jāmiʻat Istānbūl, Kullīyat al-Ādāb, Markaz al-Dirāsāt al-Sharqīyah; Edebiyat Fakūltesi Yayinlave.

Edition, French translation and commentary by Erwan Penchèvre: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.04965.pdf

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