TEXT

Risālah fī aṣl al-khārij yumkinu fī al-sufliyayn ka-mā fī ghayrihimā lil-Mawlá ʿAlī al-Qūshjī

Title (arabic)

رسالة في أنّ أصل الخارج يمكن في السفليين كما في غيرهما للمولى علي القشجي

Title (translit)

Risālah fī aṣl al-khārij yumkinu fī al-sufliyayn ka-mā fī ghayrihimā lil-Mawlá ʿAlī al-Qūshjī

Alias

Risāla fī aṣl al-khārij
Risālaẗ fī aṣl al-ḫārij yumkinu fī al-sufliyayn

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Incipit

ذهب صاحب المجسطي إلى أن أصل الخارج إنما يمكن في الثلاثة التي يبعد عن الشمس كل البعد ولا يمكن في السفليين لاقتضاء هذا الأصل...

Explicit

... مركز الكوكب على أصل التدوير فلا فرق بين الأصلين في شيء من الأحوال وذلك ما أردنا بيانه.

Notes

This work deals with the possibility that eccentric models could be used for the two lower planets, i.e., for Mercury and Venus.

ismi_id

11768

Literature References

Ragep, F. Jamil. 2006. “Ali Kuşçu Ve Regiomontanus: Dışmerkezli Dönüşümler Ve Kopernik Devrimi”. Trans. Yavuz Unat. Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları 8 (1): 81-96.
Ragep, F. Jamil. 2005. “ʿ Alī Qushjī and Regiomontanus: Eccentric Transformations and Copernican Revolutions”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 36 (4): 359-71.

Ragep provides an edited Arabic text and English translation.

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. 287 (no. 845), A7.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

P. 35 (no. 11), 4.