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TEXT

ʿAmal ṣafīḥah yuʾkhadh bihā al-irtifāʿ wa-yuʿraf bihā ṭulūʿ al-qamar fī kull laylah

Title (arabic)

عمل صفيحة يؤخذ بها الارتفاع ويعرف بها طلوع القمر في كلّ ليلة
Title (translit)

ʿAmal ṣafīḥah yuʾkhadh bihā al-irtifāʿ wa-yuʿraf bihā ṭulūʿ al-qamar fī kull laylah
Author

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

A treatise on the construction of a plate for measuring the altitude and finding the times of Moon rise and Moon set.
ismi_id

390048

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
ʿAmal ṣafīḥah yuʾkhadh bihā al-irtifāʿ wa-yuʿraf bihā ṭulūʿ al-qamar fī kull laylah_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Landberg_56

Literature References

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2004. “Al-Khwārizmī and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, the Earliest Extant Corpus of Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable Instruments”. SCIAMVS 5: 101-98.

P. 105, text 4.