TEXT

Kitāb al-ibānah ʿan istidārat al-falak

Title (arabic)

كتاب الإبانة عن استدارة الفلك

Title (translit)

Kitāb al-ibānah ʿan istidārat al-falak

Alias

Kitāb al-ibāna ʿan istidārat al-falak

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

(From MAMS2): This treatise, on demonstration of the sphericity of the heavens, is quoted by Bīrūnī.

ismi_id

61094

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. 27 (no. 45), A1.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances Between Cities; A Translation from the Arabic of Kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt Al-amākin Li-taṣḥīḥ masāfāt Al-masākin. Trans. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.

Pp. 66-67.

Al-Bīrūnī, al-Abū. Al-Qānūn Al-Masʿūdī [Al-Qānūnu’l-Mas`ūdī Canon Masudicus: An Encyclopaedia of Astronomical Sciences]. 3 vol. Hyderabad: Dā’irat al-Ma’ārif al-’Uthmānīyah [Osmania Oriental Publications Bureau].

Vol. 1, p. 364.