TEXT

[Analemma for Determining Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe]

Title (translit)

[Analemma for Determining Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe]

Alias

[Analemma for Determining Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe]

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

(From MAMS2): The original work is lost. Abū Naṣr ʿIrāq describes Ḥabash's method for determining azimuth circles on the astrolabe.

ismi_id

152419

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. 27 (no. 46), M3.

Berggren, J.Lennart. 1991. “Ḥabash’s Analemma for Representing Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 7: 23-30.
Berggren, J.Lennart. 1991. “Medieval Islamic Methods for Drawing Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe”. Centaurus 34 (4): 309-44.

Esp. pp. 312-20.