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Ashkāl al-taʾsīs

Title (arabic)

أشكال التأسيس

Title (translit)

Ashkāl al-taʾsīs

Alias

Aškāl al-taʾsīs

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

Abridgement (epitome)

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Notes

According to Samarqandī, he wrote the treatise as an introduction and a tool for the arithmetical sciences based on selected basic theorems from Euclid's Elements.

ismi_id

149474

Manuscript Witnesses

45 witnesses:

Literature References

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2008. “The Samarqand Mathematical-Astronomical School: A Basis for Ottoman Philosophy and Science”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 14: 3-68.

See esp. pp. 29-30.

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. 230 (no. 655), M1.

Suwaysi, Muhammad. 1984. Ashkāl Al-taʾsīs Li-ʾl-Samarqandī (with the Sharḥ of Qāḍīzāde Al-Rūmī). Tunis: al-Dār al-Tunīsiyah lil-Nashr.