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Sullam al-samāʾ fī ḥall al-ishkāl waqaʿa li-mutaqaddimīn fī al-ābʿād wa-al-ajrām
| Title (arabic) |
سُلَم السماء في حلّ الشكال وقع للمُتقدّمين في الابعاد والجرام
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| Title (translit) |
Sullam al-samāʾ fī ḥall al-ishkāl waqaʿa li-mutaqaddimīn fī al-ābʿād wa-al-ajrām
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| Alias |
al-Risāla al-kamālīya
al-Risālah al-kamālīyah fī maqādīr al-ajrām al-falakīyah
Sullam al-samā
Sullam al-samāʾ
الرسالة الكمالية
سُلَم السماء
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| Author |
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| Created |
809H/1407J
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Text type |
First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
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| Notes |
This treatise on the size and distance of the planets and the fixed stars is mentioned by al-Kāšī in his Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb. The work, composed in Arabic in 809/1407, was dedicated to the vizier Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd. It consists of an introduction, seven parts, and a conclusion. See reference below (DENA) for details on 11 witnesses of this work located in repositories in Mashhad and Tehran. |
| ismi_id |
58806
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Manuscript Witnesses
9 witnesses: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. 271 (no. 802), A4, A16.
Dena: Fihristwāra-Yi Dastniwishthā-Yi Īrān. 2010. 12 vol.. Tehran: Muṣṭafā Dirāyatī.
Vol. 6, p. 187.