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TEXT

Kitāb al-rakhāʾim wa-al-maqāyīs

Title (arabic)

كتاب الرخائم والمقایيس
Title (translit)

Kitāb al-rakhāʾim wa-al-maqāyīs
Alias

Kitāb al-raḫāʾim wa-al-maqāyīs
Author

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib al-Marwazī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

On sundials and gnomons. D.A. King suggests that a work on sundials attributed to al-Khwārizmī's is by Ḥabash.
ismi_id

55479

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. 28 (no. 46), A10.

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2001. “A Universal Plate for Timekeeping by the Stars by Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib: Text, Translation and Commentary”. Suhayl 2: 107-59.

P. 110.

King, David. 1999. World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

P. 350.