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Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah
| Title (arabic) |
كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة
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| Title (translit) |
Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah
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| Alias |
Ṣuwar al-kawākib
كتاب كواكب الثابتة
الصور السمائية
كتاب الكواكب
Kitāb fī ʿilm al-nujūm
Kawākib al-thābitah
كتاب الكواكب الثابتة
صور الكواكب
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| Author |
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| Created |
335H/946J
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Subject |
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| Text type |
First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
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| Notes |
Description of the 48 Ptolemaic constellations, based on the Arabic translations of Ptolemy’s Almagest, with detailed critique for each of the 1,025 stars in Ptolemy’s star catalogue, based on Ṣūfī’s own observations. |
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172144
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Manuscript Witnesses
48 witnesses: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. 86 (no. 212), A1.
Kunitzsch, Paul. 1986. “The Astronomer Abū ʾl‐Ḥusayn al‐Ṣūfī and His Book on the Constellations”. In Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch–Islamischen Wissenschaften, 3:56-81. Frankfurt: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften.