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Taʿlīl li-al-zīj al-Khwārizmī
| Title (arabic) |
تعليل للزيج الخوارزمي
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| Title (translit) |
Taʿlīl li-al-zīj al-Khwārizmī
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| Alias |
Taʿlīl li-al-zīj al-Ḫwārizmī
Taʿlīl zīj al-Khwārizmī
ʿllal zīj al-Khwārizmī
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| Author |
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Subject |
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| 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
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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, 4:541-45. 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.