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Risālah fī īḍāḥ wijdān abʿād mā bayna al-nāẓir wa-marākiz aʿmidat al-jibāl wa-ʿuluww aʿmidatihā wa-ʿilm ʿumq al-ābār wa-ʿurūḍ al-anhār wa-ghayr dhālika wa-hiya tusammá khūrīsṭīs

Title (arabic)

رسالة في إيضاح وجدان أبعاد ما بين الناظر ومراكز أعمدة الجبال وعلوّ أعمدتها وعلم عمق الآبار وعروض الأنهار وغير ذلك وهي تسمّى خوريسطيس
Title (translit)

Risālah fī īḍāḥ wijdān abʿād mā bayna al-nāẓir wa-marākiz aʿmidat al-jibāl wa-ʿuluww aʿmidatihā wa-ʿilm ʿumq al-ābār wa-ʿurūḍ al-anhār wa-ghayr dhālika wa-hiya tusammá khūrīsṭīs
Alias

Risālaẗ fī īḍāḥ wijdān abʿād mā bayna al-nāẓir wa-marākiz aʿmidaẗ al-jibāl wa-ʿuluww aʿmidatihā wa-ʿilm ʿumq al-ābār wa-ʿurūḍ al-anhār wa-ġayr ḏālika wa-hiya tusammỳ ḫūrīsṭīs
Author

Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Mathematics: Applied
ismi_id

143250

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
Risālah fī īḍāḥ wijdān abʿād mā bayna al-nāẓir wa-marākiz aʿmidat al-jibāl wa-ʿuluww aʿmidatihā wa-ʿilm ʿumq al-ābār wa-ʿurūḍ al-anhār wa-ghayr dhālika wa-hiya tusammá khūrīsṭīs_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Ṭalʿat mīqāt_79
Risālah fī īḍāḥ wijdān abʿād mā bayna al-nāẓir wa-marākiz aʿmidat al-jibāl wa-ʿuluww aʿmidatihā wa-ʿilm ʿumq al-ābār wa-ʿurūḍ al-anhār wa-ghayr dhālika wa-hiya tusammá khūrīsṭīs_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4830
Risālah fī īḍāḥ wijdān abʿād mā bayna al-nāẓir wa-marākiz aʿmidat al-jibāl wa-ʿuluww aʿmidatihā wa-ʿilm ʿumq al-ābār wa-ʿurūḍ al-anhār wa-ghayr dhālika wa-hiya tusammá khūrīsṭīs_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4832

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. 38 (no. 79), M2.