Ṣanʿaẗ al-asṭurlāb

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Ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb

Title (arabic)	صنعة الأسطرلاب
Title (translit)	Ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb
Alias	Kitāb ʿamal al-asṭurlāb
Author	Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī
Misattributed	Ṣanʿat al-asṭurlāb to Imām-al-Ḥaramayn Sirāj al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Ūshī al-Farghānī
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomical Instruments
Notes	This anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe is attributed to Khwārizmī (by F. Charette; P.G. Schmidl), and not part of Farghānī's treatise on the astrolabe. The treatise also contains a table, and includes 2 sections entitled: 1) ʿAmal al-muqanṭarāt bi-al-handasa; and 2) ʿAmal al-ẓill fī ẓahr al-aṣṭurlāb bi-al-handasa.
ismi_id	120497

Manuscript Witnesses

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Literature References

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2004. “Al-Khwārizmī and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, the Earliest Extant Corpus of Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable Instruments”. SCIAMVS 5: 101-98.

P. 105, text 1.

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. 23 (no. 41), A3.

Frank, Josef. 1922. “Die Verwendung Des Astrolabs Nach Al Chwârizmî”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Naturwissenschaften Und Der Medizin 3: 1-32.