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

Language

Arabic

Subject

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

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2001. “A Universal Plate For Timekeeping By The Stars By Ḥabash Al‐Ḥāsib: Text, Translation And Commentary”. Suhayl 2: 107-159.

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.

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.