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TEXT

[Reasoning on the Priority of Syrians over Greeks in Mathematics and Astronomy] (Severus Sebokht)

Title (translit)

[Reasoning on the Priority of Syrians over Greeks in Mathematics and Astronomy] (Severus Sebokht)
Alias

[Reasoning on the Priority of Syrians] (Severus Sebokht)
Author

Severus Sebokht
Created

0661 CE/ 0041 AH
Language

Syriac
Subject

MATHEMATICS
Notes

Has information on the "nine signs" of Hindu reckoning.
ismi_id

152325

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
[Reasoning on the Priority of Syrians over Greeks in Mathematics and Astronomy] (Severus Sebokht)_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Syriaques_346

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. 13 (no. 2), HS1.

Nau, François. 1910. “Notes d’astronomie Syrienne”. Journal Asiatique, 10th Ser. 16: 209-28.

(III).