TEXT

Nahj al-bulūgh fī zīj Ulugh [T]

Title (arabic)

نهج البلوغ في زيج ألغ

Title (translit)

Nahj al-bulūgh fī zīj Ulugh

Alias

Nahj al-bulūġ fī zīj Uluġ

Author

Created

1157H/1745J

Language

Turkish (Ottoman pre-1839)

Subject

Text type

Translation

Translation of

Commentary on

Dedicated to

Notes

ʿAbbās Wasīm Effendi's Turkish commentary on Ulugh Beg's Zīj (which was originally written in Persian) includes: examples from his own calculations for the longitude and latitude of Istanbul; findings from ancient Turkish, Hebrew, and Roman calendars not in the original; and an explanation of Ulugh Beg's method for finding the sine of 1°.

ismi_id

44055

Literature References

Aydüz, Salim. 2007. “ʿAbbās Wasīm Efendi”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:1-2. New York: Springer-Verlag.
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Pp. 445-46 (no. 297), 2