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TEXT

[Treatise on Determining the Sizes and Distances of Planets]

Title (translit)

[Treatise on Determining the Sizes and Distances of Planets]
Alias

[Treatise on Determining the Sizes and Distances of Planets]
Author

Abū al-Ṣaqr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Qabīṣī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: General
Incipit

بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم

قال عبد العزیز بن عثمان القبیصي کان سيدي أطال الله بقاه سألني أن أذكر الطريق إلی معرفة علم مقادير أجرام الكواكب ومقدارها من الأرض وأبعادها منها ...
ismi_id

137624

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
[Treatise on Determining the Sizes and Distances of Planets]_Dublin_Chester Beatty_Arabic_5254

Literature References

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. 85 (no. 205), A5.