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Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (1760 chapters)
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رسالة في العمل بالاسطرلاب
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Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (1760 chapters)
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| Alias |
Risālat al-asṭurlāb
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Arabic
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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. |
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364692
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Manuscript Witnesses
1 witnesses:Literature References
Morelon, Régis, and Flora Vafea. 2006. “Les traités d’al-S̄ūfi Sur l’astrolabe”. Paris 7.
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.