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Taʿlīl li-al-zīj al-Khwārizmī

Title (arabic)

تعليل للزيج الخوارزمي

Title (translit)

Taʿlīl li-al-zīj al-Khwārizmī

Alias

Taʿlīl li-al-zīj al-Ḫwārizmī
Taʿlīl zīj al-Khwārizmī
ʿllal zīj al-Khwārizmī

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

In this treatise quoted in al-Bīrūnī's treatise "On the Calculation of Chords in Circles," Farghānī gives explanations (ʿilal, reasons) for Khwārizmī's computational procedures.

ismi_id

53150

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. 33 (no. 67), A8.

Gillispie, Charles, and Abdelhamid Sabra. 1971. “Al‐Farghānī”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, 4:541-545. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

P. 543.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1948. Rasāʾil Al-Bīrūnī. Ḥaydarābād al-Dakan: Maṭbaʻat Jamʻīyat Dāʾirat al-Maʻārif al-ʻUthmānīyah.

First work entitled Risāla fī istikhrāj al-awtār fī al-dā'ira bi-khawāṣṣ al-khaṭṭ al-munḥanī fīhā.