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

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, and Boris Rozenfeld. 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.

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.

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