TEXT

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (1760 chapters)

Title (arabic)

رسالة في العمل بالاسطرلاب

Title (translit)

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (1760 chapters)

Alias

Risālat al-asṭurlāb

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Other version

Dedicated to

Notes

This version of al-Ṣūfī's treatise on working with the astrolabe is dedicated to the Buwayhid ruler ʿAḍūd al-Dawla al-Daylamī (r. 949-983), and consists of 16 Books (maqālāt), for a total of 1760 chapters.

ismi_id

364692

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), A2.

Morelon, Régis, and Flora Vafea. 2006. “Les Traités D'al-S̄ūfi Sur L'astrolabe”. Paris 7.