TEXT

Kayfiyyat al-arṣād

Title (arabic)

كيفيّة الأرصاد

Title (translit)

Kayfiyyat al-arṣād

Alias

Maqālaẗ fī kayfiyyaẗ al-arṣād

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Notes

On the method of astronomical observations.

ismi_id

54968

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. 137 (no. 328), A22.

Gillispie, Charles, and Abdelhamid Sabra. 1972. “Ibn Al-Haytham”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, 6:189-210. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

P. 205, III 4.

Sabra, Abdelhamid. 1978. “Maqālat Al-Ḥasan Ibn Al-Ḥasan Ibn Al-Haytham Fī Kayfiyyat Al-Arṣād [Ibn Al-Haytham's ‘Treatise On The Method Of (Astronomical) Observations’]”. Journal For The History Of Arabic Science 2 (1): 155-56, 194-228.