TEXT

Risālah fī aqdār ajrām al-kawākib wa-abʿādihā

Title (arabic)

رسالة في أقدار أجرام الكواكب وأبعادها

Title (translit)

Risālah fī aqdār ajrām al-kawākib wa-abʿādihā

Alias

Abʿād wa-al-ajrām

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Dedicated to

Explicit

تمت الرسالة التى افادها الامام الجغمينى الخوارزمى حين فرغ من تاليف الملخص فى الهيئة واهداها الى الامام بدر الدٮن القلانسى والله اعلم

Notes

This is a short tract on the sizes of the planetary bodies without addressing distances. There is no title. Jaghmīnī dedicated the work to Badr al-Dīn al-Qalānisī, most likely completed as an appendix to his al-Mulakhkhaṣ. The reader is provided with various lists such as which planetary bodies are above and below the Sun, the rounded volumes of bodies compared to the Earth, their sizes in descending order according to these volumes, and the body size of each measured in cubic parasangs (this being a mathematical calculation based on a derived parasang value for the Earth’s volume and the stated relative volume for each body).

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