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TEXT

Maʿrifat al-samt bi-al-asṭurlāb

Title (arabic)

معرفة السمت بالأسطرلاب
Title (translit)

Maʿrifat al-samt bi-al-asṭurlāb
Alias

Ẓarāʾif min ʿamal Muḥammad ibn Mūsỳ al-Ḫwārizmī
Author

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

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

A passage on finding the azimuth and determining the meridian with the astrolabe.
ismi_id

46936

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Maʿrifat al-samt bi-al-asṭurlāb_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4830

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.

Pp. 107-8, text 9.

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. 24 (no. 41), A10.